today at 2: 5,000 calls to a breast cancer helpline since yesterday, after it emerged nearly half a million women missed their final routine screening. since we opened this morning, we have had a0 calls on the first 15 minutes and it does not seem to be slowing down. people are calling about are they affected because people are not quite clear whether they are affected or not. a stormy issue. fresh questions about what president trump knew about a payment to a porn star. nearly 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. investigations will continue into cambridge analytica, despte its announced closure after being hit by the facebook data scandal. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with ben. liverpool reach the champions league final. jurgen klopp says his team played

crazy football to reach that final. they will face real madrid. more on that, including ticket details coming up and we look ahead to arsenal ‘s semifinal in the europa league. and we have all the weather. yes, the weather, would you believe, is set to get much warmer for the bank holiday weekend and we have seen some severe thunderstorms broke out gci’oss some severe thunderstorms broke out across the united states, with some huge folds of hail. we will be taking a close look at that as well. and also coming up, the largest glasshouse of its period in the world reopens at kew gardens after a five year restoration. in the world reopens at kew gardens after a five year restoration. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. breast cancer charities and public health england are reporting a major increase in the number of women contacting them, following the revelation

by the health secretary that a computer error has led to hundreds of thousands of women in england not being invited to their final routine screening. the error — dating back to 2009 — has meant that around a50,000 women aged between 68 and 71 could be affected. the think—tank the institute for public policy research has questioned why a fall in the number of women getting screened did not raise any alarms. here's our correspondent catherine burns. social care... yesterday lunchtime, the health and social care secretary made the announcement. i wish to inform the house of a serious failure that has come to light. a50,000 women were not invited to the final mammogram, 309,000 are still alive, some may be perfectly healthy, others may have breast cancer or be facing up to a terminal diagnosis. since we opened this morning, we had a0 calls in the first 15 minutes and it is not slowing down.

people are calling about, are they affected? people are not clear. other women have e—mailed the bbc about this. 0ne says she's 69 and has waited more than three years for a mammogram, even though she has had breast cancer before. another, i will be 70 next year and i have not received a screening call for at least eight years. there may well be good explanations for these women, but they and many others who could have been affected will be looking for answers now. women are supposed to be invited for the first mammogram sometime between their 50th birthday and turning 53. then every three years until they are 70. this error, being blamed on administrative incompetence, started in 2009 and did not come to light until earlier this year. meanwhile, the proportion of women getting screened for breast cancer was going down and it is now at a 10—year low, fallen from almost

7a% to just over 71% in a decade. this could be for a number of reasons but some are asking why no one examined the data more closely. public health england should have drilled down into the data to understand what was going on and it should have noticed there were a large number of women missing from the baseline that they were analysing. public health england says the breast cancer screening programme is world class and that they are devastated this has happened. we proactively invite women, unlike many other countries, but they do not necessarily take up the offer so the numbers coming forward vary each year and we invite 2.5, 3 million women every year, but over a nine—year period, and in that context, it is not immediately obvious. now the focus is on the women who missed invitations. public health england says 5,000 have called a hotline so far.

iamjoined by i am joined by the senior health information officer. what sort of calls are you getting? mainly it is womenjust wanting calls are you getting? mainly it is women just wanting to understand what has happened and if they are affected by this failure that has happened in the screening programme and for women who are worried, a helpline has been set up and we would encourage women to phone that up would encourage women to phone that up to find out if they are one of those affected or not and they will be able to offer more information. what kind of questions are there about the type and frequency of the screening they are meant to have had? i think women aren't exactly clear on if they have been affected 01’ clear on if they have been affected or not but it should be that women aged 50—70 receive an invite every

three years and as we have heard what happens is that last invite between the ages of 68 and 71 just has not come through for some women. but they will have received their earlier invited to breast screening. how reliant we become on screening? it makes a difference to survival rates. we know it is a great way to pick up breast cancer early but it is not the only way and it is still important to keep it in perspective because most breast cancers are diagnosed with women with symptoms. it is womenjust diagnosed with women with symptoms. it is women just noticing something thatis it is women just noticing something that is different, a change to their body that does not seem normal and does not go away. that self referral, how many cases does that catch, compared with screening? screening catches around about 20-25% of screening catches around about 20—25% of breast cancer cases. the rest of the breast cancers we see each year are coming through people

going to doctors, other ways of diagnosing breast cancer. what does an incident like this, when it is clear that nearly half a million women have missed out on those screenings, what does it to full confidence in the process? that is one of the major harms of this whole incident is that women might have lost faith in the sort of robustness of the screening programmes. i think thatis of the screening programmes. i think that is one of the key thing is the enquiry that is being setup needs to help address, so we need to understand how this mistake happened and safeguard against it ever happening in the future to make sure that people can really have faith in the screening programme is doing what they have been set up to do. what would you say to counter that concern? there are great sources of information out there. there is this special helpline and also cancer research uk has loads of information on the website that people can access and to remember we have had the breast screening programme for over 30 years and we have not really seen an over 30 years and we have not really seen an incident like this before. it has been functioning as it should

be for a really long time. this is incredibly disappointing and it is a failure we do not want to see repeated but it is a routine incident we are seeing. thank you very much. if you want to contact the helpline that has been set up for women affected by this. the number is 0800169 2692, or you can find more information on the nhs choices website. donald trump appears to have confirmed that he personally repaid his lawyer money given to a porn star during the 2016 election campaign, after she alleged they'd had an affair. this appears to contradict earlier statements made by mr trump that he knew nothing about the payment. he denies having had an affair with stormy daniels. his lawyer michael cohen paid her $130,000 as part of a non—disclosure agreement.

from washington, here's chris buckler. thank you very much. the truth of what happened between the president and the porn star continues to be the source of much dispute. donald trump denies ever having a sexual encounter with the adult film actress stormy daniels, but there are some very contradictory messages when it comes to legal affairs about the alleged affair. did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? on board air force one last month, donald trump insisted he knew nothing of the $130,000 payment made by his personal lawyer, michael cohen, to stormy daniels. he directed all questions to mr cohen whose office was raided a few weeks ago as part of a criminal investigation into his business dealings. in the meantime, donald trump has been building up a new legal team which includes a former mayor of new york, rudy giuliani. appearing on fox news last night, he seemed to contradict his client and quiet about her claims was paid

in the days just before the 2016 presidential election and the intention of this new statement seems to have been to try to dismiss claims that the payment could have broken campaign finance rules. but it has led to new questions, particularly as rudy giuliani said it was repaid, disguised as legal fees. it is clear that donald trump is continuing to struggle with that stormy issue, a president still looking for some protection from those allegations of the past. chris chris buckler, bbc news, washington. 0ur correspondent is in washington.

donald trump has been treating this morning but when are we going to get to the bottom of this story, do you think? well, ifi knew that... it is an extraordinary set of circumstances. what we have had really in the last 12 hours or so is a complete change of story about the whole stormy daniels situation. we know that from the podium, the press secretary, the president himself, all these people denying he knew anything about these payments and then suddenly the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, saying, no, he did know, in some sense he knew because he was paying michael cohen, his former lawyer, $35,000 a month and that money for the stormy daniels payment was coming out of that. a change in

their commentary of what went on and what is in the centre of it is the question of whether or not that money paid to stormy daniels just before the election, whether it could be construed as a campaign contribution. bearing in mind, just before the election, critical political moment, if you keep something like that quiet, you could say it is helping the candidacy of donald trump at the time. but is clearly what rudy giuliani and the president and others are worried about in terms of the fbi investigation, the special counsel ‘s investigation. that seems to be at the centre of it. they are trying to put that allegation to bed. but in the meantime, of course, they are having to acknowledge that the president knew much more than he said he knew about the money itself. cambridge analytica which came under

severe criticism for gathering data from facebook users will continue to be investigated by the regulator. even though it is closing down. it denies any wrongdoing and says media attention has driven away all its clients. we can now join clients. we can nowjoin our correspondent outside the london offices of the company. tell us more about the watchdog ‘s investigation. company. tell us more about the watchdog 's investigation. today, the watchdog is absolutely adamant that cambridge analytica and its bosses and its parent company cannot run and hide by filing for bankruptcy. it was only a few weeks ago that these headquarters were raided ina ago that these headquarters were raided in a seven—hour operation by investigators from the information commissioner ‘s office. there are fears that the company may try and delete some of the data that it holds but today the watchdog says it is going to monitor the administration process very closely, continue with its civil and criminal investigation, and that it could pursue individuals and directors from the companies, even if they are

no longer in existence. of course, alexander nix, the chief executive of cambridge analytica, stepped down recently after receiving quite a grilling from the committee for culture and sport. the watchdog also said today that they will look closely at any successor company. many believe this will not be the end of cambridge analytica. there is such a demand for data, their services could reappear under the guise of another company. cambridge analytica have denied any of their staff had acted unethically or illegally but the watchdog believes it still has questions to answer. let's speak about to a journalist, joining us from our central london studio. how do you account for the changing fortunes of cambridge analytica? very few companies could withstand such a barrage of negative media and of course cambridge analytica and

other companies depend on their accreditation. when they were first credited with being the mastermind behind the donald trump victory, business was booming. they had calls from all over the world, from other people, parties and companies that wanted to work with them. times have changed in the last two or three months. this is not surprising at all really. how much of a fever has the downfall of this particular company done for us, the users of social media, in terms of what actually happens to the information we share? interestingly, and bizarrely really, cambridge analytica has properly done more for the cause of user awareness than anything else i can remember. people are very conscious and interested in the subject of what happens to my data, much more than they were just two months ago. it is remarkable how this story seems to have changed public attitudes. of course, things

will slowly get back to normal again. but i think we have seen a bit of a different now. people are much more aware of this problem and ina weird much more aware of this problem and in a weird and unexpected way, that is partly thanks to cambridge analytica. but whatever happens to cambridge analytica and its personnel in the future, these tactics and methodologies are not going away, are they? we have to be vigilant about them for the future. of course they are not going away because what you have to remember is these techniques and technologies, these techniques and technologies, the data extraction, the profile building, the micro—targeting, this comes from commercial advert technology, which is a multi—billion dollar industry. it is properly improved in the last couple of months. and political parties tend to follow what the commercial companies are doing. even though cambridge analytica might be gone, maybe it will reform and on another name, as has been suggested, but the

general trend is towards ever more micro—targeting and profile building and targeting adverts, that is not going anywhere. jamie bartlett, thank you very much talking to us. you are watching afternoon live. the headlights. 5000 calls to a breast cancer helpline since yesterday after it emerged nearly half a million women missed their final routine screening. fresh questions about what donald trump knew about a payment to a porn star. nearly 500 people have died and scores more injured in northern india. and in sport, the race is on for champions league final tickets. liverpool and real madrid have been allocated just over 16,000 each. arsene wenger says he wants to finish his arsenal love story well by reaching the final of the europa league. they face atletico madrid

tonight. it is all square after the first game. i'll be back with more on those stories just after half past. a woman accused of throwing acid over herformer partner a woman accused of throwing acid over her former partner has been describing the night of the alleged attack in court. she is accused of scarring her partner so badly he ended his life at a clinic last year. she claimed in the days leading up to this alleged acid attack that she was scared of him that he was controlling everything in her life, she said. she did believe the dutch born engineer had dense and into a

gas pipe in theirflat. she said she felt something bad was going to happen. but then she said he had text it and used these words, i love you, we are meant to be, you are my princess, and he told the court, i felt happy but soon after that message on the 22nd of september 2015, she said they fought again at their flat 2015, she said they fought again at theirflat in 2015, she said they fought again at their flat in bristol. 2015, she said they fought again at theirflat in bristol. she 2015, she said they fought again at their flat in bristol. she claims she was told there was a glass of water left out for her on the bedside table. she said she did not drink that water but when they had another clash, she threw it over him and she did not release would not realise the glass contained sulphuric acid. she saw smoke rising and the blood drained out of her. the court has heard that the injuries were so bad, the victim chose to end his life in a euthanasia clinic. she denies

throwing the acid and murder and she will continue to be cross examined this afternoon. virgin media has announced 800 jobs are to be cut as it closes its call centre in swa nsea. it closes its call centre in swansea. the firm plans to focus operations on its manchester site. the chief executive said the company planned to the site in 2019. the basque separatist group peta has announced it is disbanded. the group deemed a terrorist organisation by the european union killed more than 800 people between 1968 and 2010. a year later, it announced a permanent ceasefire. 0ur correspondent is in san sebastian. how widely anticipated was this? very. it has been one of the worst kept secrets in spain that eta was going to disband. it was a question of when,

not if. in this statement, they said they were going to end all political activities. disband all their structures, if you like. it is an audio recording we have been passed bya man audio recording we have been passed by a man we believe to be a leading member of eta, who has been in hiding for several years. but although he says all the political activity is ended by this group, which is deemed by most spaniards to bea which is deemed by most spaniards to be a terrorist organisation, it killed more than 800 people in a long campaign of violence, in this message, the group actually puts forward a pretty blatant political message and that political message is although the group is ending and no more, and it is a very symbolic moment for spain as a whole and for the basque country, at the same time, the group, the people who used to belong to the group, are still going to support those left—wing basque nationalist groups which are pursuing the ultimate goal of eta, the creation of a separate state through peaceful political means, not the violent and brutal tactics

which eta pursued for many years. what has the spanish government said? but it is propaganda. the spanish prime minister said we are not going to change our tactics. i would expect that to be the position of the government. the spanish people demand it. it is widely seen asa people demand it. it is widely seen as a brutal terrorist organisation, they carried out a number of bombings. even after the death of franco in 1975, throughout the 80s and 90s, they killed hundreds of people, bombings, targeted assassinations, we met one man this morning whose father was shot dead at point—blank range in san sebastian in 1976 and for him, this statement is pure marketing. he wa nts statement is pure marketing. he wants the spanish government to maintain that hardline, that it is not capitulate to any of the demands of the group. for example, one of the long held demands of the group is that the prisoners, members of

eta, be moved closer to their relatives, they are generally held in prisons far away from their families, that demand, i don't think there's any sign that the spanish government is going to capitulate to that demand. 0r government is going to capitulate to that demand. or any other. but it is a hugely symbolic moment. eta has loomed large over the basque society and it has loomed large over the politics of this region and the country, spain. thank you very much. it's feared more than 100 people have died in powerful dust storms sweeping across parts of northern india. most of the —— a senior official told the bbc they were the most intense storms in decades. the buildings collapsed after being struck by lightning and high winds. the storm swept across north india, bringing devastation. winds of over

80 mph, uprooted electricity pylons, the arcane cables sparked this ferocious fire. storms are common in india this time of year but this one was much bigger. —— than had been forecast. the wind whipped up great clouds of choking dust. it was a struggle to walk down the street. trees were uprooted. buildings brought down. then came the rain. torrential rain. as always, it was the poorest who suffered most. many we re the poorest who suffered most. many were killed when their feeble mud and brick homes collapsed, crushing those inside. there were widespread power cuts, stormed a brief closed roads, making it hard for rescue

teams to reach those in need. hospitals were busy caring for the more than 1a0 people who were injured as it left wreckage in its wake. it will be days before power and other services are fully restored, said officials. meanwhile the forecasters have warned that the turbulent weather is not over. more powerful storms are on their way. let's get more on this with our correspondent in delhi. what is the latest? the weather continues to be quite pleasant in delhi, where i am based but all the scenes you just witnessed are not very far away. just about 100 kilometres from here. almost 100 people, as far as we know, have died, and thousands have been displaced from their homes. and the weather department tells us the next 2a hours, we may see more rain and dust storms. just to let you

know i'll give you an idea of what it is like, it was a0 degrees and a little bit more in the past week and it has come down to early 30s, in some places, even 28 degrees today. that is the impact of the dust storm. the weather department tells us storm. the weather department tells us such storms storm. the weather department tells us such storms are storm. the weather department tells us such storms are not unusual at this time in northern india because as the heat rises, the moisture brings in all these storms but because this happened overnight, it got a lot of people off guard and lead to all these casualties. people have been warned to be careful. governments have also spruced up themselves. they have also declared money and assistant to people that have died and those who have been displaced, even the prime minister has asked the state governments to do what they need to do in case the dust storm comes up again in the next 2a hours. thank you very much. let's take a

look at the weather forecast. you have been promising us a good bank ona you have been promising us a good bank on a day. it is not going off track, is it? no, it is still on. don't worry about. but we wanted to talk about big storms first, these are ha ilstones big storms first, these are hailstones and pretty big ones. u nless hailstones and pretty big ones. unless this hand is really small. but is the other possibility. they are golf ball sized. it is incredible. it is some way short of the world record. i think the world record was in bangladesh. just short ofa record was in bangladesh. just short of a kilogram. a bag of sugar. can you imagine that? they form within thunderstorms. the updraught and downdraughts keep these hailstones suspended and if you chop into a hailstorm, you get concentric layers

of kind of opaque eyes and white ice. and each layer is determined by the number of times this hailstorm has bounced up and down within the storm cloud. these hailstones will have had lots of layers. it has been bouncing around inside the thunder storm cloud. incredible. i have some pictures of the hailstorm in action. this was in iowa. there is a risk of further severe storms going in across parts of iowa, missouri as well, and parts of iowa, missouri as well, and parts of canada. heads and cars are not going to come out well in a storm like that. australia's most costly natural disaster ever, i believe, was back

in 1999. it was a massive hailstorm and it created loads of damage. i was lucky enough to go to australia that year. and you saw cars just driving around with these massive dent in the rules and the bonnets. and the other storm we have been looking at is this big dust storm that has hit the north of india. 80 mph gusts of wind. this was an area of thunderstorm that developed because it had a strong jet stream flowing over this part of the world. and it created this linear line of thunderstorms that just came through. when they get organised like that, they get incredibly strong winds and they can produce all this damage and unfortunately, we have heard of a number of fatalities as well. a closer home. a skiles closi dege‘éme.

a skiles —— :los| dege‘éme. a skiles —— :los| diskies. e. with sonny skiles —— sunny skies. rain pushing in across northern ireland. it is starting to make inroads across the north of wales and the midlands. but the system is weakening all the while. across eastern counties of england, we will keep the sunshine. a bit of high cloud in the sky. the temperature is not doing too badly at all. we are looking at highs of 18 degrees in london. a few scattered showers moving into western and central areas of scotland. 0vernight, quite areas of scotland. 0vernight, quite a lot of cloud moving into the british isles. coming in from the north and west. it is not going to be as cold as it has been over recent nights with temperatures typically around 7—9d. here is the chart as we end the week. tomorrow, windy conditions for the north—west of the country. it is here where we

are most likely to see some rain. 0therwise are most likely to see some rain. otherwise it is a dry day. quite a bit of cloud coming and going. bright and sunny spells, as we go through the afternoon. temperatures, 18 degrees in aberdeen. 18 in newcastle. 19 towards the london area. but that is just the start of the weather warming up. as we had through the bank holiday weekend, we have warm spells of sunshine. temperatures will be rising. it is all down to this area of high pressure. there is the risk of a little bit of rain in scotland. but for the rest of the country really, high pressure dominates and increasingly, we will get warm air coming from the near continent. that is what will be boosting the temperatures as we go through the weekend. saturday, dry weather. we may manage 23 towards london and the south—east. always a bit more in the way of cloud in the north west. the

threat of rain from north—west scotland. the rain risk still there for sunday. away from that north—west corner, there should be increasing amounts of sunshine. and with the air coming in from northern france and germany, we are importing that warm air all the time. highs of 25 degrees in london and in birmingham. similar temperatures for bank holiday monday as well. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. urgent calls to a breast cancer helpline after it emerged nearly half a million women missed theirfinal routine screening due to an nhs computer error in england. battling a stormy issue — fresh questions about what president trump knew about a payment to silence porn star stormy daniels over a claim of an affair. nearly 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. many of the dead were sleeping when their houses collapsed

after being struck by intense bursts of lightning. cambridge analytica shuts down — but the probe into its role in facebook‘s data scandal continues. investigators vow the probe will still "pursue individuals and directors". the defence secretary says that afghans who served as interpreters alongside the british army should be allowed to stay in britain and their immigration fees waived. sport now on afternoon live with ben mundy. liverpool into the champions league final, then. real madrid are actually looking for their third consecutive champions league title. it won't be easy for liverpool. they're vastly experienced in this tournament, madrid. but they showed defensive frailties in their semi—final against bayern munich and that will encourage liverpool. they had a wobble themselves last night, losing a—2 against roma in italy, but going through 7—6 on aggregate. liverpool boss jurgen

liverpool bossjurgen klopp halted a crazy game last night. —— call it a crazy game last night. —— call it a crazy game. and here's a stat that will cause madrid concern: liverpool's front three of mohamed salah, roberto firmino and sadio mane are now the highest scoring trio for a club in a single champions league season. the liverpool fans have seen those three score 29 goals in the competition. and now the scramble is on for tickets. both liverpool and madrid have been allocated just over 16,000 each for the match on may the 26th. the remainder of the 63,000 capacity will be taken up by sponsors and hospitality. so, yes, liverpool through to that final at the end of the month. so that's the champions league, but arsenal are looking forward to meeting atletico madrid in the different competition? in the europa league semifinal, they're in spain to face atletico madrid. it's 1—1 from the first leg, so finely poised. the arsenal camp will feel they missed a golden oportunity to take advanatge in the home tie last week. atletico had a man sent

off really early — arsenal too the lead — commanded things, then gave away a cheap away goal. so that means arsenal must score tonight to stand any chance of making the final. and this is their only hope of qualifying for next season's champions league, so the pressure is on for arsene wenger. he has struggled in the premier league this season. if they do progress, it'll give him the chance to win silverware in his final match in charge. yes, i would like to walk out of arsenal one day and think, until the last day, i focused only on arsenal. when myjob is finished at arsenal i will see where i go from there. but i want to finish with this love story well. it would be quite sombre story, too. —— quite some love story. elsewhere this afternoon, justin langer has been appointed australia's new cricket coach as expected. the former opening batsman takes overfrom darren lehmann in the wake of the ball—tampering scandal. langer says one of his firstjobs will be to earn the respect and trust of the cricketing world. one of the things that is really

important is that we keep looking to earn respect. to me, respect is worth more than all the gold in the world. earn respect on and off the cricket field. also i know the really important foundation over the last six years in western australian cricket is we look to encourage great cricketers but also great people. if we can encourage great cricketers and great australians over the next four years starting from day one i think that is really important foundations for us. the men's tour de yorkshire has got underway in the last hour. but the first stage of the women's race is over, kirsten vild edging this bunch sprint at the line. the dutch rider was the favourite prior to the stage from beverley to doncaster, and had too much power for everyone else. britain's alice barnes finished third. the four day race ends in leeds on sunday. and the first of the world snooker championship semi—finals is underway in sheffield. john higgins is back in action after beating judd trump by just the one frame at the crucible last night, the four—time champion up against kyren wilson. the other semi—final — between barry hawkins

and mark williams — starts this evening. let's take you to the crucible right now, kyren wilson ——john higgins —— john higgins has taken the first three frames. wilson is edging that fourth frame and you can keep up on the bbc two and the bbc sport website. that's all the sport for now. you will keep you updated on the snooker throughout the afternoon. 0ur our top story, breast cancer england has reported a major increase in the number of women seeking advice. it follows a computer error which resulted in many women not being invited to their final screening. i'm nowjoined by the oncologist karol sikora, who previously has been an assessor for the nhs breast cancer screening programme. this went on for nine years, they

say it is a computer error, but how do you think it came about? say it is a computer error, but how do you think it came abounm say it is a computer error, but how do you think it came about? it was only discovered when a study in older women to see how effective screening was by randomising it was put into place by an academic group at oxford. and they found, to their surprise, that people over 68 just have not been called for the last nine years. and that led to the discovery, it must have been in november last year. what does it tell you about the system that we have now put in place? no, it's ok. but there are blacks are prizes. 0ne is that none of the staff actually recognise the fact of the over 60 not coming. —— there are two surprises. someone must have said, oh, don't worry the computer is never wrong. and the other surprises the patients. why did the woman not say, i haven't had a letterforfive yea rs, say, i haven't had a letterforfive years, what is going on? and no one did anything. maybe they did and it was ignored because the computer is a lwa ys was ignored because the computer is always right. how much

responsibility should we as patients take, then, for insuring we go the text we believe remit to be having? i think it is a generational thing. the generation in their 60s and 70s are used to everything being done for them by the wonderful nhs and the wonderful government and so on. and so they don't believe there can be an error. the 30—year—old, kids, for example, they are phoning people up, wondering what is going on. i think it is a generational thing. how much of the nhs system, though, is praiseworthy? i know you have been critical of it in the past but the screening programme has been proven to have saved lives. it's fabulous and with a well—organised, and in the three years i was responsible for assessing and organising it, you could not find fault. better than any other country in europe. the problem is that this sort of error is no one in the system's fault, it's outside, it's the computer that has been set at the computer that has been set at

the wrong level by mistake. maybe by a veryjunior the wrong level by mistake. maybe by a very junior person the wrong level by mistake. maybe by a veryjunior person that did that. i know you work a lot in the private sector. how different they are systems like this organised in the private sector, which of course is much smaller and having to cope with your people? exactly and also if you're only having to screen 100 people in a month, it's a lot fewer than the of the nhs is dealing with, so than the of the nhs is dealing with, so the chances of error less. also, private patients, on the whole, better educated, wealthier, more pushy, they will push for better care. it's a combination. ever relaxing and saying, the nhs knows best, and sometimes it goes wrong. what needs to change? to make sure it doesn't happen again? the whole it culture of the nhs needs a revamp. when i was director in west london, one week tried to introduce improvement in it, it all went down the plug. and at the moment, local systems a re the plug. and at the moment, local systems are great but national systems are great but national systems and exist. thank you very

much for coming in. -- national systems don't exist. a study published in the british medicaljournal says £20 million spent by the nhs per year on emollient oils to treat eczema urges. eczema is the most common condition in childhood. let's speak now to the bridges skin foundation via webcam. thank you very much for joining us. how much of the shock will this be to people who religiously pour the stuff in the bath water? good afternoon. yes, it's going to come as a bit of shock toa it's going to come as a bit of shock to a lot of the population in the uk with dermatologists advising patients to use such products. and actually, asjobbing dermatologists, there is a platter of evidence for using in millions on the skin, in

using in millions on the skin, in using substitutes when you're showering or washing —— soap substitutes, but when you look at bath additives, the evidence hasn't been as convincing. in fact there has been evident since individuals that bath additives could make the condition worse. so i think it time that we have an study conducted in uk which gives us the ability to have a look at this with significant health cost savings for the economy without any detrimental benefits to patients. —— detriment to benefits. but surely this research into the efficacy of these bath oils and additives was done before we started spending this money? well, the study was conducted over a period of 12 months in a real—life setting, so it was unlike other experimental

laboratory setting, this study was conducted in gp surgeries with children attending with their pa rents children attending with their parents and the children were followed up to see whether those who used bath additives and those who didn't use bad additives, whether there was a difference. and there appeared to be no eligible clinical difference and conditions. —— does he used bath additives. i think with all aspects of medicine, with co nsta nt all aspects of medicine, with constant research being undertaken in the world of dermatology, and we have fresh evidence now that confirms something which a lot of dermatologists probably hand on heart felt that didn't have much benefit, the utility of bath additives, but this was yet further evidence that confirms that and as you rightly pointed out, there is a significant cost saving to the nhs, to the wider economy, without any detriment to benefits for children 01’ detriment to benefits for children or indeed adults. so i think we have

to be responsive to emerging evidence and change practice accordingly. but i think itjust would be surprising, certainly to me, that these things were prescribed before we even knew whether they were good or not. so what is to change in the kind of lotions that children are given? the previous. , we know that children with eczema have very dry skin. star trek the previous dogma. we note it can dry up the skin further. and we felt that adding bath additives would retain more moisture in the skin and we use my trousers in creams in different formulations. —— my trousers and creams. and current evidence has shown, on the contrary and some patients may find some

children may find that actually using additives are still powerful. so for example, some additives have antiseptic properties which reduce the risk of infection and for those children, bath additives may still have a role in reducing the risks of infection which in eczema is not an uncommon outcome. thank you. my pleasure. it's the largest victorian glasshouse in the world — making the temperate house in kew gardens a very special place for horticulturalists. the doors have been closed for the past five years for restoration — but reopen this weekend. absolutely squinting through the sunshine in this glasshouse. 15,000 panes of glass had been replaced, their apps at the shining and we are making the most of the sunshine here. and it is a geographically laid out arc of some of the worst

and most endangered species of pla nts and most endangered species of plants from temperate zones over the world and someone who knows a lot about how that was put together as a collection is a horticulturist here at kew gardens. thank you so much, it looks absolutely beautiful here. how do you decide what goes into a place like this? it's a team effort, really. historically, already, we had plans here so we wanted to say the majority of those plants. some had become hardy outdoors so we re move had become hardy outdoors so we remove them but the majority stayed m, remove them but the majority stayed in, so making sure they were surviving and coming through, but also adding new things. he knew things, obviously, we decided on some because we like them or their work aesthetically pleasing for various reasons, but also our colleagues in science and interpretation teams suggested plants that we should display. we wanted to showcase what happens behind the scenes here at kew, the work that our colleagues are doing. and it is a real torah the world

among glasshouse. we are standing in africa and some of the really beautiful examples of the work to preserve endangered species, like the plant behind you, i've had this call the longest punt in the world. tell me about that. this is one of the originals, there is a clump that was discovered in 1895 in south africa. this is the original stem, it arrived at kew in 1989, the other stamp stayed in south africa where they are still going nowadays. because all the plants are male and all the propagation we can do is close, it is, as you say, the longest punt, it doesn't have a partner to be matched up with. we are searching for one, it may still find one, and there are other processes in the background about breeding it was a close relative to try and get a female version of this one so try and get a female version of this one so that we can get seeds. dupont matchmaking going on behind the scenes. what are the chances of this pond finding a mate?|j

scenes. what are the chances of this pond finding a mate? i don't know, to be honest. i have high hopes but it is important for us to give these things going. nowadays we don't have the technologies to build to create a female plant are to find one, but we may be able to in the future. in the meantime, we will keep this guy going, we will keep the plant healthy, happy, but also explain to out healthy, happy, but also explain to our visitors the importance of it. wonderful. thank you for inviting us in. and we will be spending the afternoon touring this world tour of life from around the planet and this place will be sold with 600 people later on as sir david attenborough cuts the ribbon and officially opens the temperate house. thank you very much. ina in a moment, the business news, but first, the headlines. 5000 calls a breast cancer helpline since yesterday after it emerged that nearly half a million women missed their final routine screening. fresh questions about

what president trump knew about a payment to a porn star. nearly 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. nearly 800 jobs are at risk as virgin media closes its call centre in swansea, the telecommunications firm plans to reduce its number of bases from eighth to four. more on that in a moment. cambridge analytica, the firm at the centre of the facebook data—sharing scandal, is shutting down. the firm is infused of improperly obtaining personal permission of millions of facebook users on behalf of political clients. and disappointing data for the uk economy. already this week, we have had construction and manufacturing figures, this monica made was the return of the services sector. pmi cover the purchasing managers index,

wasn't as strong as expected. let's do more on this virgin media story. this has just this hasjust broken in the this has just broken in the last couple of hours. the figure we have so couple of hours. the figure we have so far is that nearly 800 people are risk of redundancy from their swa nsea risk of redundancy from their swansea centre, the call centre in swa nsea swansea centre, the call centre in swansea is to be closed as part of a major restructuring by the company. they currently have eight customer centre operations in the uk, dealing with anything from customer calls, complaints, that sort of thing. they are trying to reduce that number down to four regional hubs, so it means in addition to swansea closing, they're following four site are also un—nooh for closure, slow, langley, when its and hook, and a new regional hub will be opening in reading. 0verall, new regional hub will be opening in reading. overall, it means about 500 jobs will be lost. here's a give us more context, the investment director, thank you forjoining us

live. does remind us, who are virgin media and hardly sit in the sector? i media and hardly sit in the sector? ,itis media and hardly sit in the sector? , it is down by an american media company, its origins actually lie in ntl and telewest if you remember those in the uk. it provides telecoms, television, broadband and mobile services, and it is the third or fourth mobile services, and it is the third orfourth biggest player mobile services, and it is the third or fourth biggest player in that market. this sort of may we are seeing this closing down of some of the call centres, to four regional hubs, is that visitors and competitors are doing or is it a supplier is? it is a fiercely competitive market, look at who they are robbing shoulders with, bt, 02, sky, top tour, it is brutally competitive. we are seeing talk talk restructured recently, bt is looking co nsta ntly restructured recently, bt is looking constantly to get costs down, it is a fiercely competitive market. you don'tjust a fiercely competitive market. you don't just compete a fiercely competitive market. you don'tjust compete on content, the

movies and sporty offer, you compete on cost, which means they need to keep costs down but also on quality of service. we are seeing a legion of service. we are seeing a legion of complaint from consumers about broadband, not getting connections and speeds they want, you need efficient services to keep those people happy. what a virgin media will be saying is that they are moving to new, refurbished hubs in some cases to try and improve positive service. not that i fear that will be much comfort to people in swansea this evening. investment director at aj bell, thank you for your time. has lovely stay figures, still no profit? —— tesla released figures. they are burning through cash — £5000 a minute according to bloomberg. that's starting to try the patience of once—loyal investors. that was actually their worst quarterly loss ever, £523 million between january and march.

quarterly loss ever, £523 million betweenjanuary and march. however, elon musk, the ceo, thinks they will be comfortable. —— profitable. keatings there will be profitable by the second half of the year they can produce enough of their cars there have been production issues at the moment but they are putting more money into predicting that car, the first truly mass—market car production. it has increased a3% since the start of the year but there are still hundreds on the waiting list. 0ur north american business correspondence is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. tell us, what is the share price doing? investors are not happy about this, nor, quite frankly, they happy about elon musk‘s behaviour. shares in the company opens down nearly 7% which is quite dramatic and to bring showers in the company of order lost a quarter of their value since september. we mentioned their vehicle production. tell us, what are the issues tesla have been facing? this is what came up on a

conference call yesterday. kessler said it wants to make 5000 cars a week. it is not even making half of that yet. elon musk blamed automation for those predictions though done, he said the company had relied too much on robots and might need more humans on the floor. but when he was pressed further by investors, asking how he would hit those production targets and be profitable within three months, a kind of lashed out and said he didn't want aren't any more boring, boneheaded questions and started taking questions from a youtube retail investor for the next 20 minutes. so we didn't really get any insight into what the company is going to do to try to figure out its production before it runs at a cash. we promise you won't ask you any boring, boneheaded questions! see later. time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes

the weather is looking fine in the run—up to the bank holiday weekend, you'll be pleased to hear. and for today, actually, many areas have had some fine spells of sunshine, the best of it across england. this is one of our weather watchers' pictures from earlier in the day, near the rotherham area, showing the oilseed rape there in the fields. it's not been dry everywhere today, we have had this area of low pressure bringing some rain to northern ireland and a that has pushed eastwards, a few showers to the north—west of both england and wales. but across much of eastern england, we've had lots of sunshine and will keep that through the rest of the afternoon, and on into the evening time as well. whereas further north and west, there is going to be a little more in the way of cloud. that weather pattern, then, continues overnight though there will generally be a little bit more cloud filling in across the skies.

it will be a milder night with temperatures between 7—9 celsius. that takes us on into friday, then. it should be a nice start to the day across southern parts, where we have this area of high pressure in charge. for the north—west, brisk south—westerly winds with these weather fronts close by, they will threaten some rain across the far north—west of scotland, particularly during friday morning, though the rain will tend though the rain will tend to ease later on. elsewhere, we will have some bright or sunny spells breaking through the cloud, some of this across eastern part of england and eastern scotland, and does temperjust coming up a little bit. highs of 18 aberdeen and 19 towards london and the south—east. what about bank holiday weekend prospects? well, as i said at the start of the bulletin, things are looking pretty good. we will get some spells of sunshine, it will get warmer as well and it will be bright for most. dry for most because we have high—pressure in charge across much of the uk, weather fronts being steered to the north and west. with this area of high pressure firmly dominating the picture, increasingly, we will start to get winds coming from the near continent and it's that that will boost the temperatures. saturday looks like this, then. cloudy weather with a bit of rain across the far north—west of scotland and that could get

heavier as the day goes by. but otherwise, it's a bright and dry day with sunny spells. temperatures 18 in aberdeen but 23 towards london and things will get warmer still during the second half of the weekend. we should get increasing amounts of sunshine, again, rain never too far from the north—west of scotland, where it could be heavy and a little bit of brisk winds. but in the sunshine, it will be getting warmer. highs reaching 25 degrees towards london and south—east england. that's your latest weather. hello, you're watching afternoon live. today at 3. 5,000 calls to a breast cancer helpline since yesterday, after it emerged nearly half a million women missed their final routine screening. since we opened this morning, we had a0 calls in the first 15 minutes and it is not slowing down. people are calling about, are they affected? people are not clear. battling a stormy issue —

fresh questions about what president trump knew about a payment to a porn star. nearly 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. investigations will continue into cambridge analytica, despite its announced closure, after being hit by the facebook data scandal. coming up on afternoon live all the sport — ben mundy. and all eyes on the europa league... liverpool into the champions league final last night. arsenal looking to make it to the europa league final tonight. they head into the away leg of their semifinal against atletico madrid with the game tied 1—all. we'll hear from arsenal manager arsene wenger before a o'clock. thanks ben, and we'll bejoining you for a full update just after half—past. chris has all the bank holiday weather. a warm awarm bank

a warm bank holiday at home and storms abroad. yes, that pretty much sums it up. it is set to get much warmer for the bank holiday weekend and we have seen severe bank holiday weekend and we have seen severe thunderstorms break out over the united states. we will be taking a closer look at that as well. also coming up — the largest glasshouse of its period in the world reopens at kew gardens after a five—year restoration. hello, everyone. this is afternoon live. breast cancer charities and public health england are reporting a major increase in the number of women contacting them, following the revelation by the health secretary that a computer error has led to hundreds of thousands of women in england not being invited to their final routine screening. the error, dating back to 2009, has meant that around a50,000 women aged between 68 and 71 could be affected. the think—tank the institute for public policy research has

questioned why a fall in the number of women getting screened did not raise any alarms. here's our correspondent catherine burns. social care... yesterday lunchtime, the health and social care secretary made the announcement. i wish to inform the house of a serious failure that has come to light. a50,000 women were not invited to the final mammogram, 309,000 are still alive, some may be perfectly healthy, others may have breast cancer or be facing up to a terminal diagnosis. since we opened this morning, we had a0 calls in the first 15 minutes and it is not slowing down. people are calling about, are they affected? people are not clear. other women have e—mailed the bbc about this. 0ne says she's 69 and has waited more than three years for a mammogram, even though she has had breast cancer before. another, i will be 70 next year

and i have not received a screening call for at least eight years. there may well be good explanations for these women, but they and many others who could have been affected will be looking for answers now. women are supposed to be invited for the first mammogram sometime between their 50th birthday and turning 53. then every three years until they are 70. this error, being blamed on administrative incompetence, started in 2009 and did not come to light until earlier this year. meanwhile, the proportion of women getting screened for breast cancer was going down and it is now at a 10—year low, fallen from almost 7a% to just over 71% in a decade. this could be for a number of reasons but some are asking why no one examined the data more closely. public health england should have drilled down into the data to understand what was going on and it should have noticed there were a large number

of women missing from the baseline that they were analysing. public health england says the breast cancer screening programme is world class and that they are devastated this has happened. this screening percentage, that will bea this screening percentage, that will be a percentage of the number of women who have been invited and not accepted, if you like, or not come forward to actually take the screen forward. it will not include women who have not been invited. so the numbers are not comparing they are not directly compatible. now the focus is on the women who missed invitations. public health england says 5,000 have called a hotline so far. our health correspondent nick triggle is here.

we think it has come to light because of a mistake from a trial. this was looking at extending the period offering breast screening. within this trial, women were placed into two groups. the group getting the extended screening for longer and the controlled group that effectively gets the screening that the normal routine population would get. and what happened, we think, when they set up this trial, they set the cut—off point at a woman's 70th birthday, rather than the 71st birthday, so some women were not offered their last screening invitation and what they then did

was they had a wider look at the system and they have seen some similar anomalies, i have been told. why has it come to light now? thank goodness it has after all these yea rs. goodness it has after all these years. it appears the people behind the trial were looking through the data and a computer system was upgraded that allow them to get a better handle on the data and they spotted that women were not always being offered their last screen. that then led them to raise the alarm. public health england have been looking at this since january and ministers have made statements yesterday. some commentators are saying, why haven't staff spotted that older women in the... who have not been coming in the same numbers. that is one of the questions that remains unanswered. the proportion of winning coming forward for screening has been dropping since 2012 and that should in theory have raised alarm bells. people i have

spoken to, doctors i have spoken to, said it was a contradicted system because you had the routine screening going on and you had this trial with two different groups in that trial, so it is quite a complicated picture for the last nine, ten years. thank you very much. if you believe you have been affected a helpline has been set up. you can call the breast screening helpline on 0800169 2692. the advice is not to contact your gp. donald trump appears to have confirmed that he personally repaid his lawyer money given to a porn star during the 2016 election campaign, after she alleged they'd had an affair. this appears to contradict earlier statements made by mr trump that he knew nothing about the payment. he denies having had an affair with stormy daniels. his lawyer michael cohen paid her $130,000 as part of a non—disclosure agreement. from washington, here's chris buckler. thank you very much.

the truth of what happened between the president and the porn star continues to be the source of much dispute. donald trump denies ever having a sexual encounter with the adult film actress stormy daniels, but there are some very contradictory messages when it comes to legal affairs about the alleged affair. on board air force one last month, donald trump insisted he knew nothing of the $130,000 payment made by his personal lawyer, michael cohen, to stormy daniels. he directed all questions to mr cohen whose office was raided a few weeks ago as part of a criminal investigation into his business dealings. in the meantime, donald trump has been building up a new legal team which includes a former mayor of new york, rudy giuliani. appearing on fox news last night, he seemed to contradict his client and

suggested the president did know about the cash. that money was not campaign money. sorry, i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know. it's not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. so, they funnelled through a law firm? funnelled through a law firm and the president repaid it. the money intended to keep stormy daniels quiet about her claims was payed in the days just before the 2016 presidential election and the intention of this new statement seems to have been to try to dismiss claims that the payment could have broken campaign finance rules. but it has led to new questions, particularly as rudy giuliani said it was repaid, disguised as legal fees. it is clear that donald trump is continuing to struggle with that stormy issue, a president still looking for some protection from those allegations of the past. chris chris buckler, bbc news, washington. 0ur correspondent, gary 0'donoghue is in washington, and trump's been tweeting this morning? yes, he has. a whole bunch of

early—morning tweets, yes, he has. a whole bunch of ea rly—morning tweets, as yes, he has. a whole bunch of early—morning tweets, as we are getting used to, about the business of stormy daniels and is money that was paid. in the streets, he does seem was paid. in the streets, he does seem to be trying to emphasise very clearly that his lawyer, michael coen, who is of course now under criminal investigation by the fbi over his business dealings, that he pay this money and it was not paid from the tramp campaign or from the trump organisation. very specifically making that point. the reason he's doing that is because of this question of illegal financial contributions to an election campaign. $130,000 was sent to stephanie clifford days before the

general election to keep her quiet. we know that now. the president has denied knowing anything about that money. but now we learned he was paying back $35,000 per month to his lawyer for a whole bunch of months last year, possibly even into this year. the idea that he was handing over $35,000 a month... without knowing what it was being repaid for, i think beggars belief. and of course this morning, the press secretary sara sanders who has also said that the president knew nothing about this payment previously, she was confronted by reporters outside a television studio. rudy giuliani has spoken at length on this last night and this morning. there is ongoing litigation. i am not going to be another comment. there was a bit of a disconnect

between what the president said on air force one and the way that rudy giuliani decide how that payment was made. i think it is fair to say there is ongoing litigation and the president's attorneys, who have the greatest amount of visibility into this have spoken about this at length last night and again this morning. the president has put out multiple tweets this morning. you can see she was getting a lot of heat from those reporters about what the president knew and when he knew it, about this money. also about her role in its because she has studied the podium inside the white house and said the president knew nothing about it. now she says the ongoing litigation means she cannot talk about it. she did not feel under those restraints a couple of months ago or on various other occasions.

there is a briefing this afternoon at which i think she's going to get even more pressure about what the president knew about this money and when he knew it. thank you very much. cambridge analytica will continue to be investigated by the regulator, even though it's closing down. the company came under severe criticism for gathering data from up to 87 million facebook users to use in political campaigns. the information commissioner's office said its investigation will still "pursue individuals and directors". cambridge analytica denies any wrongdoing and says media attention has driven away all of its clients. jamie bartlett is a journalist and author. he told me wily he was not surprised that the closure. very few companies could withstand such a barrage of negative media and of course, companies like cambridge analytica depend on their reputation. interestingly enough, when they were first credited with being the mastermind behind the

donald trump victory, business was booming. i mean, they had calls from all over the world, from other people, parties and companies, that wa nted people, parties and companies, that wanted to work with them but of course, times have changed in the last two or three months. this is not surprising at all really. how much of a favour has the downfall of this particular company done for us, the users of social media, in terms of what actually happens to the information we share? interestingly, and bizarrely really, cambridge analytica has provably done more for the cause of user awareness than any thing else than i can remember. people are very, very conscious and sort of interested in the subject of what happens to my data, much more than they were just two months ago. it is remarkable how this story seems to have changed public attitudes. of course, things will slowly get back to normal again. but i think we have seen a bit of a different style. people are much

more aware of this problem and in a weird and unexpected way, that is partly thanks to cambridge analytica. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: 5,000 calls to a breast cancer helpline since yesterday, after it emerged nearly half a million women missed their final routine screening. fresh questions about what president trump knew about a payment to a porn star. nearly 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. and arsene wenger says he wants to finish his arsenal love story i reaching the final of the europa league. it is all square after the first game. the race is on for champions league final tickets. liverpool and real madrid have been allocated just over 16,000 each. a woman accused of throwing acid over her former partner has

been describing the night of the alleged attack in court. berlinah wallace is accused of scarring mark van dongen so badly that he ended his life at a belgian clinic last year. she denies all the charges. let's get the latest now from jon kay who is in bristol. what has been happening in court? berlinah wallace has been talking about her relationship with mark van dongen. notjust on the night but in the weeks, the months, the years leading up to it. she said they would sometimes have arguments, that it was sometimes volatile and on the night of this incident, back in september 2015, she said they had a fight, an argument at their flat in bristol, and she said mark van dongen told her that he had poured out some water into a glass so she could take medication, as they went to bed. she said she did not drink

that water. as she thought it was. and a bit later, they had another argument and she threw what she thought was this glass of water over him as he lay in bed. he then shouted, that was acid. she said she saw them what she thought was smoke rising. and she said it was only then that she realised it was sulphuric acid, which she had bought some to clear the drains a few weeks earlier, that had been in the glass. she said she had no idea. she said she was deeply shocked. she said knowing now that he was almost paralysed from his acid burns, left with these really serious injuries and ended up deciding to take his own life in a euthanasia clinic in belgium, knowing that now, she felt appalling and so sorry, so sad. she denies intentionally throwing that acid in the class and she denies murder. she denies all the charges in this case. she is now being

cross—examined by the prosecution will put it to her that she had a temper, that she was an angry person, that she had anger issues and she was particularly angry to have learned just before this alleged acid attack that mark van dongen had been seeing another woman. and they are putting it to her that she was jealous and this was some sort of act of revenge. she denies everything and the cross—examination continues at bristol crown court. a university worker who stabbed his boss to death after becoming obsessed with her has been jailed for a minimum of 28 years. david browning from seaford in east sussex has been convicted murdering jillian howell at her home in brighton. she was found with multiple stab wounds and the word "bully" written on herforehead. nearly 800 people are at risk of redundancy after virgin media has announced it will close its call centre in swansea. the firm plans to focus its operations on its manchester site. virgin media says there will be a net reduction in 500 roles overall. a report on alleged institutional abuse at a mental

health ward in denbighshire has found no evidence to support the claims. an inquiry in 2015 was told by relatives that conditions on the tawel fan ward near rhyl were like a "zoo". but a new investigation has concluded that the evidence it relied on was incomplete. tomos morgan reports. she was vibrant, she was kind, considerate. you always think your own mother is the best. for six weeks in 2012, joyce elizabeth dickerty was cared for at the tawel fan ward at glan clwyd hospital, north wales. a mental health ward with elderly dementia patients. but from the outset, her children, christine and philip, had concerns about their mother. her bed was by the door and there were lots of beds piled up on top of each other, and a curtain ripped down that was supposed to be hiding, so it was like a store room. she deteriorated quicker than expected, and joyce's family were called in one evening as they were told the mother was about to die. and their experience of what happened that evening still shocks them now, almost six years on.

it was chaos. there were people outside with underpants on their head running around naked. they sat outside our door, banging the door. trying to get in. and of course we were talking about it, how bad it was, not realising at the time that my mum could probably hear all this. she was probably worried about us on her deathbed. after serious concerns were raised a year later, the board closed and the first report launched immediately. it detailed some of the most serious claims of mistreatment ever made within the nhs in wales. today's report by independent health consultants the health and care advisory service is the most comprehensive investigation into the tawel fan ward. it found no evidence of institutional abuse and said the previous evidence in previous reviews was misinterpreted and taken out of context. it goes on to say that overall there was a good standard of care. it does say there were problems across some services and the government at the health board prevented a robust approach to patient safety. i accept that people will find this report a challenge to read, but this whole process has been

very, very difficult. but i do hope that when they have got the chance to read it in depth they will find, as i believe it to be, that this was a really well evidenced—based, substantial piece of investigation. the trust and betsi cadwaladr health board has been damaged in the eyes of some families, like philip and christine. with others feeling that this review has been a whitewash. mirror group newspapers have settled their latest phone—hacking case against a number of celebrities. the high court ordered that undisclosed damages should be paid to the former footballers andy cole and dwight yorke, the actress jennifer ellison and the model danielle lloyd. none of the celebrities were at london's high court for the settlement of their claims for misuse of private information. the defence secretary, gavin williamson, says he's made clear to the home office that afghan

interpreters for british forces who moved to the uk should be allowed to stay. he described them as brave individuals who had every right to be in the country. it comes after more than 150 interpreters wrote a letter to mr williamson demanding a change to the immigration rules. it's feared over 100 people have died in powerful dust—storms sweeping across parts of northern india. most of the dead were in uttar pradesh. a senior official told the bbc they were the most intense storms in decades. many of the dead were asleep at home when their homes collapsed after being struck by lightning and high winds. justin rowlatt reports from dehli. the storm swept across north india, bringing devastation. winds of over 80 miles an hour, uprooting electricity pylons, cables sparking this ferocious fire. storms are common in india at this time of year but this one was much bigger than had been forecast. first, the wind whipped up great clouds of choking dust, a strugglejust to walk down the street. trees were uprooted, buildings brought down.

then came the rain, torrential rain. as always, it was the poorest who suffered the most. many were killed when their mud and brick homes collapsed, crushing those inside. storm debris closed roads and railways, making it hard for rescue teams to get to those in need. hospitals were busy caring for the more than 1a0 people who were injured as the tempest left wreckage in its wake. it will be days before power and other services are fully restored, said officials. meanwhile, the forecasters have warned the turbulent weather is not over.

more powerful storms are on their way. justin rowlatt, bbc news, delhi. my colleague, divya arya, sent us this update from delhi a short time ago. the weather continues to be quite pleasa nt the weather continues to be quite pleasant here in delhi, where i am based but all the scenes you just witnessed are not very far from delhi, just about 100 kilometres from here. almost 100 people as far as we know have died and thousands have been displaced from their homes. and the weather department tells us that the next 2a hours, we may see more rain and dust storms, just to let you know i'd give you an idea of what it is like, it was a0 degrees and a little bit more in the past week. and it has come down to early 30s and in some places even 28

degrees today. the weather department tells us that such dust storms are not unusual at this time in northern india because as the heat rises, then the moisture brings in all the storms that because this happened overnight, it got a lot of people off—guard and let all these casualties. people had been warned to be careful and lead to any approaching dust storm and come out of their houses if there are signs to do so. money has been declared and assistance to people who have died. and those who have been displaced. even the prime minister has asked the state government to do what they need to in case a dust storm of this intensity comes up again in the next 2a hours. speaking to bbc radio fours today

programme, he said the middle east was ina programme, he said the middle east was in a dangerous position and there was a risk of war if the deal was not preserved. i believe it was an important diplomatic victory and i think it would be important to preserve it but i also believe that there are areas in which it will be very important to have very meaningful dialogue because i see the region in a very dangerous position and i understand the concerns of some countries in relation to iranian influence in other countries of the region. i think we should separate things. other countries of the region. i think we should separate thingsm short, the message to donald trump is build on the agreement?” short, the message to donald trump is build on the agreement? i think that this agreement is an important achievement. if one day there is a better agreement to replace it, it is fine, but we should not scrap it u nless we

is fine, but we should not scrap it unless we have a good alternative. the electric car company tesla has reported its worst ever results, announcing a loss of £523 million in the first three months of the year. the company is striving to produce more cars as questions mount about its financial situation. tesla says it hopes to be profitable in the second half of this year, but only if it can make five thousand of its new model 3 cars every week. theo leggett reports. tesla has already proved that electric cars can be fast, luxurious and have long range, but it hasn't yet shown that it can make a profit out of them. tesla is now a well—known brand, but it's not yet a major manufacturer. it's working hard to change that, but boosting production takes time and it costs money — a lot of money. tesla lost more than £0.5 billion in the first three months of this year alone. it's been pouring money into building up its business. and as this chart shows, it's burning through cash at a seemingly ever—increasing rate. and this is a big part of the problem.

the new tesla model three. it's meant to be a mass—market electric car, but the company can't yet build enough of them. it's working flat out to increase production. the question is whether it can do it quickly enough. there are a few challenges facing tesla. firstly they're in a race against time. the competition are mobilising with electric models. also incentives have a very finite time period and also they're burning through cash very quickly, and that's a worry to investors. not that tesla's boss elon musk seems worried. during a conference call with financial analysts to discuss the results he even cut off one caller, saying, these questions are so dry they're killing me. that dismissive attitude helped send the company's shares down a%. for the moment though, investors are still backing tesla. the company is worth £38 billion. that's more than ford or general motors. but unless it can start making money as well as spending it, it may find the wheels come off its drive to enter the fast lane of the motor industry. theo leggett, bbc news.

time now for the weather forecast. the weather for most of us is looking fine in the run—up to the bank at the weekend and today, it has been a pretty decent day. much of england having sunny skies. this was the scene earlier today. further north and west, we have seen a bit more clout than that cloud through this evening and overnight will tend to filter into many areas, although probably keeping clear skies across southeast inman. it will be a milder night with temperatures down to 7 degrees. not as chile to start off with friday morning. it should be another largely dry day. some showers across western scotland but otherwise, it will thin and break as

the day goes by with spells of sunshine. in the sunshine, temperatures reaching 18 and 19 towards london and the south—east. however things are said to get even warmer than that as we head into the bank holiday weekend. the weather warming up, temperatures for some in the south—east reaching the mid—20s. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. urgent calls to a breast cancer helpline after it emerged nearly half a million women missed theirfinal routine screening due to an nhs computer error in england. battling a stormy issue — fresh questions over what donald trump knew about a payment of ‘hush money‘ to silence porn star stormy daniels over an alleged affair. nearly 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. many of the dead were sleeping when their houses collapsed after being struck by intense bursts of lightning. cambridge analytica shuts

down — but the probe into its role in facebook‘s data scandal continues. investigators vow the probe will still "pursue individuals and directors". the defence secretary says that afghans who served as interpreters alongside the british army— should be allowed to stay in britain and their immigration fees waived. sport now on afternoon live with ben mundy, and ben, after liverpool reached the champions league final yesterday, all eyes will be on arsenal, who are looking to reach the europa league final this evening? yes, arsene wenger goes in search for a yes, arsene wenger goes in search forafairy yes, arsene wenger goes in search for a fairy tale ending to his arsenal career. they're in spain for the second leg of their semi—final against atletico madrid. it's finely poised, this one, at 1—1. but wenger and arsenal know progress to the final will give him the chance to win silverware in his final match in charge. 0ur sports correspondentjoe wilson is in the spanish capital. beneath madrid's blue skies, the

passing tourist suddenly meet a bear. hunting fruit from a tree, strawberries, they say. the medieval symbol is also the badge of the city's hungry football club, atletico. the real madrid side, for the supporters, certainly. stop for a selfie? bit busy. these atletico players took all that was thrown at them in london last week and group 1-1. that them in london last week and group 1—1. that creates confidence. tonight, the arsene wenger farewell tour will reach a crescendo here or fall flat. 0n the eve of this match, do you actually feel nervous? laser was a part of tension, i would say, tension, desire to win and, you know, as well, with the experience i have and uncertainty about football.

i want to finish with this love story well. of the past two decades, arsene wenger has led arsenal's supporters all over the continent but never to european trophy. so a european semifinal at 1—1 going into the second leg, the question here is whether those arsenal fans still believe? we believe, we believe! at the end of the day, we are an old romantic, and we could win the trophy and it could be a great way for him to go out and all the fans ata given for him to go out and all the fans at a given on the stick, anyone would say he deserves to go out this way. peregrine my lifetime, sometimes, we were on the table. not not obviously in the premiership, division 1, but... so, for me, he has been a dream. composure will be crucial for visitors tonight, keep your head when others lose there. watch out. at their home ground, atletico have conceded just four

goals all season in the league. you, so goals all season in the league. you, so many goals all season in the league. you, so many come goals all season in the league. you, so many come hunting and find nothing. —— you, justin langer has been appointed australia's new cricket coach. as expected, the former opening batsman takes over from darren lehmann in the wake of the ball—tampering scandal. top of his to—do list, a tour of england next month as well as earning the respect and trust of the cricketing world... one of the things that is really important is that we keep looking to earn respect. to me respect is worth more than all the gold in the world. earn respect on and off the cricket field. also i know the really important foundation over the last six years in western australian cricket is we look to encourage great cricketers but also great people. if we can encourage great cricketers and great australians over the next four years starting from day one i think that is really important foundations for us. the men's tour de yorkshire is underway, but the first stage of the women's race is over. kirsten vild edging this bunch sprint at the line. the dutch rider was the favourite prior to the stage — from beverley to doncaster —

and had too much power for everyone else. britain's alice barnes finished third. john higgins has taken an early lead in the first of the world snooker championship semifinals. he faced fourth of the table kyren wilson in sheffield. let's take you live there, higgins lead and has taken there, higgins lead and has taken the lead in this session come he leads by four frames to one. you the lead in this session come he leads by fourframes to one. you can keep up—to—date via the bbc sport website and watch live over on bbc two. so, just missing! we will keep you updated on that here, too, will be back in the next hour with more sport. more now on our top story — breast cancer charities and public health england are reporting a major increase in the number of women seeking advice. it follows the revelation that a computer error has led to around a50,000 women aged between 68 and 71 not being invited to their final routine screening.

a little earlier i spoke to the oncologist karol sikora, who was previously an assessor for the nhs breast cancer screening programme. he started by giving his reaction to the revelations. i think there's two surprises. one is that none of the staff of the nhs breast units actually recognised the fact that no—one over 68 actually pitched up, theyjust stopped coming. i'm sure some bright receptionist spotted it and said something, and, "oh, don't worry, the computer is never wrong, computers never lie." and the other surprise is the patients. why did the women not say, "i haven't had a letter for five years, what is going on?" and no one did anything. maybe they did and it was ignored because the computer is always right. how much responsibility should we as patients take, then, for ensuring we get the checks we believe we should be having? i think it is a generational thing. the generation in their 60s and 70s are used to everything being done for them by the wonderful nhs and the wonderful

government and so on. and so they don't believe there can be an error. the 30—year—olds, my kids, for example, they would be phoning people up, wondering what is going on. i think it is a generational thing. how much of the nhs system, though, is praiseworthy? i know you have been critical of it in the past but the screening programme has been proven to have saved lives. it's fabulous and really well—organised, and in the three years i was responsible for assessing and auditing it, you could not find fault. it was one of the best systems we have. better than any other country in europe. the problem is that this sort of error is no one in the system's fault, it's outside, it's the computer that has been set at the wrong level by mistake. maybe by a veryjunior person that did that. i know you work a lot in the private sector. how differently are systems like this organised in the private sector, which of course is much smaller and having to

cope with far fewer people? exactly, and also, if you're only having to screen 100 people in a month, it's a lot fewer than the nhs is dealing with, so the chances of error are less. also, private patients, on the whole, better educated, wealthier, more pushy, they will push for better care. it's a combination, of everyone relaxing and saying, the nhs knows best, and sometimes it goes wrong. what needs to change to make sure it doesn't happen again? the whole it culture of the nhs needs a revamp. when i was director in west london, when we tried to introduce £12 billion improvement in it, all misspent, it all went down the plug. and at the moment, local systems are great but national systems don't exist. police investigating the disappearance of a young british girl in germany 36 years ago are examining a riverbank in the town of paderborn. katrice lee, who was two, went missing in 1981 during a trip

with her mother to the supermarket. 0ur correspondentjenny hill has sent this report from paderborn. 0n the banks of a german river, a slow, painful search begins. underthe mud, clues, perhaps, to a case which has baffled detectives for decades. katrice lee disappeared during a supermarket trip with her mother. it was her second birthday. the family lived on the nearby british army base. despite a huge search — soldiers, police, volunteers — she was never found. i am 100% certain that katrice was abducted and either sold for profit to a childless couple or taken by a childless couple. and, yes, she's quite possibly speaking another language, and equally so, i could be her grandparent and i'm sat here and i don't know it. —— i could be a grandparent.

over the years, artists' impressions of a girl growing up. detectives think it's possible katrice is alive, though unaware of her background. this is, they think, what she'd look like today. the police admit they made mistakes during their original investigation. they've now rea nalysed old evidence, and it's that, they say, which has led them right here to this spot. and to a search which opens old wounds, but aims finally to expose the truth. it's the largest victorian glasshouse in the world — making the temperate house in kew gardens a very special place for horticulturalists. the doors have been closed for the past five years for restoration — but reopen this weekend. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill is in kew. this is just looking absolutely resplendent in the sunshine today. i'm actually squinting as the sun is

just beaming in through this newly placed glass. this has been such a huge project, this entire building, nearly 8000 square metres, was wrapped in a giant tent as it was fixed and every bit of it examined and replaced. and i was finding out earlierjust and replaced. and i was finding out earlier just how and replaced. and i was finding out earlierjust how much of a huge project this has been for the team here at the royal botanic gardens at kew. five years, 15,000 panes of glass, and more than 5000 litres of paint. the restoration of the world's largest victorian glasshouse has been a labour of love. but when i had a sneak previewjust two and a half weeks ago this was still very much a building site. thanks to the inclement weather this project has been set back weeks. it is now a real race against time, but in just over a fortnight the temperate house will open to the public. it's already home to half of the 10,000 plants that will be housed here. the garden inside this vast greenhouse is a snapshot of the life that grows in temperate climates all around the world

and for many of these plants this is their only refuge. we've got a real importantjob to keep these things going. some plants that are may be down to a few individuals in the wild — a wild fire, an earthquake, and they are gone. so we really need the people to understand the importance of these things. among the greenery are species that harbour natural medicines, now used to treat potentially lethal diseases, including malaria. i nickname it the reclining buddha. in his first visit here sir david attenborough highlighted the importance of kew‘s scientific work, learning how to protect plants from which we still have so much to learn. it's here that people can study these consequences of not only diseases but invasive plants, plants that can come in and be more vigorous than some of our native plants and drive them to extinction. so that kind of ecological botanical knowledge is of extreme importance and this is one of the great centres for it. for the first time since it was opened in 1863,

the house was stripped back to bare metal. every part of its structure has been examined in detail. this was a painstaking refurbishment of a national treasure. the temperate house is the largest surviving victorian glasshouse in the world. so for kew this was a hugely important project, both to bring these plants back to their home but also to restore this building back to its beauty and its absolute architectural brilliance. open to the public once again, this great building is fulfilling its original victorian purpose — providing a home for some of the world's most precious plants. and underneath the heathrow, some of the planes going over very low, this is actually now an arc of some of the most endangered and rare plants

from around the world. we are standing in africa next up on behind me that is extinct in the world, now. only here at kew and other botanic gardens. and later, this place will be sold with —— filled with people as sir david attenborough cuts the ribbon and opens it to the public. in a moment, the business news. first, a look at the headlines on afternoon live. 5000 calls to a breast cancer helpline since yesterday after it emerged nearly half a million women missed their final routine screening. fresh questions about what president trump knew about a payment to a porn star. more than 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. tesla has posted a record quarterly loss of almost £523m for the three months to march — more than double the same period last year. the carmarker says it

will be profitable in the second half of 2018, but only if it can make 5,000 model 3 cars every week. it's currently making less than half that. the share price has fallen 7%. more "disappointing" data for the uk economy — already this week, we have had construction and and manufacturing pmi figures, this morning it was the turn of the services sector. pmi stands for the purchasing managers' index. any figures above 50 shows that the sector is growing — and the figure for april was 52.8, but it wasn't as strong as expected. talktalk has come last for the second year running in a broadband service report released by regulator 0fcom. the compa ny‘s customers were the least likely to recommend their provider to friends. it scored poorly for reliability and complaints handling. talktalk say they are rolling out major service improvements. tell us more about this virgin media story — hundred ofjobs at risk? this is a story about a major restructuring of virgin media — one of the uk‘s

biggest telecoms providers. fixed lines, mobile phones, broadband, internet, all of thing. and it looks like overall around 500 jobs will be lost in the uk. that's the overall figure, underneath that there is a lot of movement. to break it down — virgin media's call centre in swansea will close by 2019. that puts around 800 at risk — some will be redundancys, some will be relocations but people may not want to move. along with swansea, four other sites are earmarked for closure — slough, langley, winnersh and hook. eight customer service bases will become for with a new regional hub is created close by in reading. 0ur colleagues at bbc wales have beenin 0ur colleagues at bbc wales have been in swansea asking for people'sreaction. it is devastating, and only to find anotherjob. we had a meeting in our

inbox, basically saying there's a meeting but we had no idea what it was until we went in there, completely unexpected. everything is up completely unexpected. everything is up in the air. i'm in a slightly different condition where i might be able to work from the cardiff office but still, it's different to swa nsea, but still, it's different to swansea, i signed off swansea. so we'll see what happens. virgin media employees in swansea hearing that news about a major restructuring of the company which will lead tojob restructuring of the company which will lead to job losses. demand for gold is falling, i thought it was a safe haven? that's right — gold is equally at home in the vaults of the central banks as it is around your neck. an investment, an accessory — it's a very versatile commodity — when you compare it to other things people put their money into — oil, bitcoin, government bonds — gold is tangible, and it looks nice — but at the starts of this year demand for gold was at its lowest level for 10 years. let's find out why.

joining us now is alistair hewitt, head of market intelligence with the world gold council. thank you forjoining us. why has demand for them? part of the reason is that we are seen lower investment into gold in the first three months of this year than we did in the same three months of 2017. that is partly because some of the risks around the market in 2017 just aren't here any more. this time last year, people we re more. this time last year, people were worried about the elections in germany and the netherlands and france, and you also have negative interest rates in parts of core european markets. that's quite an intense period. lots of those issues have faded away. now in the first three months of 2018, we don't face the same types of risks and gold also trades in a very narrow price range. i think those factors contributed to the relatively soft start to the year. how does the gold

market work? resident kept? that's a good question. the gold market is quite complex, if you think about london, that is a key trading hub for the global gold market, thousands of tonnes go to london every single year in the cold stored in large and secure vaults and that services the needs of central banks, and also the needs of large institutional investors. when you think about the world more broadly, thinking about china or india, gold is very much part of society, so households will buy it for weddings, people buy it for religious festivals and give it to loved ones and partners, so you're more likely to find it being saved in peoples homes, one around people's next, you have that difference in the global market between the large wholesale trade market in london and on how it is actually one by people who buy gold at the end of the supply chain. it is used for trading and as you say as an accessory, it is also used by the tech industry. talk to us about its rising demand there. this isa

about its rising demand there. this is a fascinating part of the market. we are seeing increasing demand for gold in technology. gold has been increasingly used in mobile technology like smartphones, which need facial recognition or gesture recognition, that type of technology. memory chips require a little bit of gold within them to make sure they work effectively. you will also see a strong demand from the wireless sector, so when five g roll—out 0lley five g network is being roll—out out, that will support demands for gold in the wi reless support demands for gold in the wireless sector. your sissy gold been used in bonding wire, which is used in storage platforms, graphic cards, which are used to mine, for example, cryptocurrency is. so we see very example, cryptocurrency is. so we see very strong demand in that part of the market. and what is interesting as it illustrates the diversity of demand. some people buy it for adornment and beauty purposes, some people buy gold for investment purposes, and it is all seized in technology, as well. ——

also used in technology. wordy keep it all? wordy keep it all? word you keep all your gold? ioan very little, it's not a problem! cazorla shares fell at the open of the new york markets, they are now down all 7.5%. —— tesla shares. due for s have announced their shares have gone ex dividend, meaning if you buy their shares, the dividend payments will go to the seller rather than the buyer. —— gas. i'll be back with a round—up of the market in an hour. polling stations are open today across england for voting in local elections. it's the biggest test of public opinion since the general election 11 months ago. most councils will be counting votes overnight, but others will declare results during the day on friday. 0ur political correspondent

eleanor garnier reports. preparations started early at polling stations up and down england. in central london, theresa may and her husband placed their votes before nine o'clock. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn marked his ballot paper at a polling station in a primary school in north london. and also casting his vote after school, this time —— casting his vote at a school, this time in lambeth in south london, the co—leader of the green party, jonathan bartley. the liberal democrat leader vince cable voted with his wife in twickenham. there are a371 council seats up for grabs. in 150 unitary authorities, metropolitan boroughs and district councils. six mayoral elections are also being held. all council seats are being fought for in london and some cities, including birmingham, manchester, leeds and newcastle. there's also a by—election in the parliamentary seat of west tyrone in northern ireland.

here in swindon in wiltshire, people will lead to bring id to be able to vote. it's part of a pilot scheme also happening in bromley, gosport, watford and woking. polling stations opened at 7am this morning and they'll stay open until 10pm tonight. these polls are the first england wide test of electoral opinion since the general election last year. most of the results will come in overnight but some areas won't start counting until tomorrow, so the final results won't be known until later on friday. and you can watch full coverage of the local election results on bbc one and the bbc news channel from 11:a5 tonight. many professional musicians are thinking about changing career because they don't earn enough to live on — according to a study by the musicians union. the report says nearly half of its members are considering giving up. 0ur entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports. a position with a leading uk

orchestra would be a dream come true for gemma freestone, but she knows there's likely to be a cost. in the musicians union survey, almost half said orchestral work isn't enough to live on — luckily, gemma is keen to embrace additional work, like teaching, but for many, taking on extra work is a financial necessity. we don't do what we do for money, of course we don't, we love what we do but we have to earn a living and if people have families and children — obviously not me yet — but looking towards the future, if you want to have a family and live comfortably, you need to be able to earn a decent amount of money. percussion player nigel charman has played in all the royal opera house's major productions in recent years. he says he feels lucky but that colleagues elsewhere are struggling because of the way he's seen orchestras and music changing over the last a0 years.

the cost of instruments, the cost of insurance of instruments has gone up. the training is now costing a fortune, in time and in money, and it's not being supported by the money that we can earn. would you advise your children to go into the same profession? i have two children and i have done my best to make them grow up loving music and loving drama and loving sports and to go into the real world and go nowhere near the music business. the musicians union say archestras are an important part of our culture and aren'tjust for regular concert—goers. even if you're not a classical music fan, you probably interact with orchestras more than you realise, so watching your favourite tv programme, film, playing your favourite video game, orchestral musicians are on those soundtracks. also, our members do a lot of work in dementia homes, hospitals, and they also plug a gap in music education. they've started a campaign to try and increase awareness of the way orchestras affect everyday life,

from visiting homes for the elderly to providing music on the soundtracks for hollywood's biggest movies, in the hope that better recognition might lead to a musician's work being better rewarded, something that might ensure that talented young players like gemma won't be put off from playing in the many orchestras that touch people's lives in so many ways. time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. the weather for most of us is looking fine in the run—up to the bank holiday weekend and today, it has been a pretty decent today. much of england having some sunny skies. this was the scene earlier near rotherham, oilseed rape there in the sunshine. the need relatively blue skies. but further north and west we have seen more cloud and that through this evening and overnight will tend to filter into many areas, though probably keeping clear skies

for most of the night because east anglia and south—east england. it will be arguing night, temperatures is down to between 7—9, so not as chilly to start off with friday morning and it should be another largely dry day. a few passing showers across western scotland but otherwise, cloud will probably an outbreak of the goes by with spells of sunshine. in sunshine, temperatures reaching 18 in aberdeen and around 19 towards london and the south—east. however, things are set to get even warmer than that as we head into the bank holiday weekend. the weather warming up, temperatures for some towards the south—east reaching the mid—20s. hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm martine croxall. today at a: 5,000 calls to a breast cancer helpline since yesterday, after it emerged nearly half a million women missed their final routine screening. since we opened this morning at breast cancer care, we had a0 calls in the first 15 minutes and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. people are calling about are they affected,

because people aren't quite clear whether there are affected or not. battling a stormy issue — fresh questions about what president trump knew about a payment to a porn star. more than 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with ben mundy. and all eyes on the europa league... yes, liverpool into the champions league final last night. the town of arsenal tonight, league final last night. the town of arsenaltonight, looking league final last night. the town of arsenal tonight, looking to make it into the europa league final. they face atletico madrid. they are tied 1-1. thanks ben. and chris fawkes has all the weather — chris. yes indeed, set to get much warmer into the bank holiday. temperatures reaching mid 20s in the warmer spots. elsewhere in the world, some stormy weather, dust storms in northern india and storms also in

the us. more about that. thanks, chris. also coming up... the largest glasshouse of its period in the world reopens at kew gardens after a five—year restoration. hello everyone — this is afternoon live. i'm martine croxall. breast cancer charities and public health england are reporting a major increase in the number of women contacting them, following the revelation by the health secretary that a computer error has led to hundreds of thousands of women in england not being invited to their final routine screening. the error — dating back to 2009 — has meant that around a50,000 women aged between 68 and 71 could be affected. the think—tank the institute for public policy research has questioned why a fall in the number of women getting screened did not raise any alarms. here's our correspondent catherine burns. social care...

yesterday lunchtime, the health and social care secretary made the announcement. i wish to inform the house of a serious failure that has come to light. in the national breast screening programme in england. a50,000 women were not invited to the final mammogram, 309,000 of them are still alive, some may be perfectly healthy, others may have breast cancer or be facing up to a terminal diagnosis. since we opened this morning, we had a0 calls in the first 15 minutes and it is not slowing down. people are calling about, are they affected? people are not clear. other women have e—mailed the bbc about this. 0ne says she's 69 and has waited more than three years for a mammogram, even though she has had breast cancer before. another, "i will be 70 next year and i have not received a screening call for at least eight years". there may well be good explanations for these women, but they, and many others who could

have been affected, will be looking for answers now. women are supposed to be invited for their first mammogram sometime between their 50th birthday and turning 53. then every three years until they are 70. this error, being blamed on administrative incompetence, started in 2009 and did not come to light until earlier this year. meanwhile, the proportion of women getting screened for breast cancer was going down and it is now at a 10—year low, fallen from almost 7a% to just over 71% in a decade. this could be for a number of reasons but some are asking why no one examined the data more closely. public health england should have drilled down into the data to understand what was going on and it should have noticed there were a large number of women missing from the baseline that they were analysing. public health england says the breast cancer screening programme is world class

and that they are devastated this has happened. screening percentage, the number of women invited and not accepted or not come forward to actually take the screaming for it, it won't include women who have not been invited. so the numbers are not comparing, not directly compatible. now the focus is on the women who missed invitations. public health england says 5,000 have called a hotline so far. joining me in the studio is tom kibasi, we saw him in that report. he is the director of the think tank the institute for public policy research. thank you forjoining us. how would you characterise the nature of this error? i think it is quite a shocking mistake. it was a very basic error in many respects and the

shocking thing is how it could carry on for nine years. a data glitch, technical glitch? i think it's a bit problematic to describe this as an it problem or computer glitch. this was a very it problem or computer glitch. this was a very basic mistake in how the system was set up. so i think it is a distraction of accountability to blame it on computer systems. this was fundamentally a mistake that was made by those running the national screening programme. how fair is that? we are increasingly reliant on technology for things like invitations to come to screening. if that isn't generated, it is a technical glitch? the problem was in the age range set for this greeting. it isa the age range set for this greeting. it is a person who sets the age range. we have to be clear about accountability. this was fundamentally a human error, in defining the age range of those being invited in for screening and i think it is a little too easy to simply blame the technology. think it is a little too easy to simply blame the technologylj

think it is a little too easy to simply blame the technology. i think the uptake fell from 7a% in 2008— 09 to 71% in 2013-1a. only 3%, the uptake fell from 7a% in 2008— 09 to 71% in 2013—1a. only 3%, how much is that? it is a very significant number in the screening programme. as you point out from the review published last week, we drew attention to that particular issue. now, uptake is not the same as this issue, which is about the number of women being invited to screening but it should be the red flag. people should have said, the uptake has gone down to what is going on? then dug into the data and think, why are we missing 50,000 women a year? that isa we missing 50,000 women a year? that is a significant number. if you have several hundred of these mobile clinics or you have hospitals that are doing this screening and it is not many women per site that are not turning up? these are not organised per site, a national screening programme and it is a reasonable

expectation that women will have throughout the country, that when they are told there was a national screening programme, they will be invited for screening and they can expect that will take place just as it been promised. how might this system have been set up better, to have avoided this mistake? you have to worry about the quality assurance here. the stakes get every made in every field of human endeavour and people sometimes get things wrong. the question is, why did no one spot that mistake when it was first made? more than that, why was it able to persist in nine years without anyone looking into it in any more detail? i think that is really the question. how could this go on for so long? we all understand mistakes get made but 50,000 women a year? for nine years question that is a shocking mistake to made. what are the extra checks and balances you think would need to be introduced to make sure this particular problem didn't happen ain? particular problem didn't happen again? that will be one of the big questions that comes from this

independent review announced by the health secretary. we would expect that in that review they would come up that in that review they would come up with proposals to say, how can these problems never occur again and what kind of quality assurance needs to be in place in the future? i think that will be a matter for the review. this is about breast cancer, but what should the nhs be doing to ensure that other diseases, other conditions for which people can be screened don't also run into this trouble? let's be clear, the responsibility for the national screening programme sits with public health england are not the nhs. what should they now do? they need to provide assurance that they have got the setup for the other screening programmes, done in the right way and this error isn't being found elsewhere in other screening programmes. 0ne elsewhere in other screening programmes. one would hope they have done that what had looked at the rest of the screening programmes but we should be hearing more from public health england to satisfy the public‘s concerned. public health england to satisfy the public's concerned. thank you for joining us. thank you.

donald trump appears to have confirmed that he personally repaid his lawyer money given to a pornographic actress during the 2016 election campaign — after she alleged they'd had an affair. this appears to contradict earlier statements made by mr trump that he knew nothing about the payment. he denies having had an affair with stormy daniels. his lawyer michael cohen paid her 130 thousand dollars as part of a non—disclosure agreement. from washington, here's chris buckler. thank you very much. the truth of what happened between the president and the porn star continues to be the source of much dispute. donald trump denies ever having a sexual encounter with the adult film actress stormy daniels, but there are some very contradictory messages when it comes to legal affairs about the alleged affair. did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? on board air force one last month, donald trump insisted he knew nothing of the $130,000 payment made by his personal lawyer, michael cohen, to stormy daniels. he directed all

questions to mr cohen whose office was raided a few weeks ago as part of a criminal investigation into his business dealings. in the meantime, donald trump has been building up a new legal team which includes a former mayor of new york, rudy giuliani. in the meantime, donald trump has been building up a new legal team which includes a former mayor of new york, rudy giuliani. appearing on fox news last night, he seemed to contradict his client and suggested the president did know about the cash. that money was not campaign money. sorry, i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know. it's not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. so, they funnelled through a law firm? funnelled through a law firm and the president repaid it. the money intended to keep stormy daniels quiet about her claims was payed in the days just before the 2016 presidential election and

the intention of this new statement seems to have been to try to dismiss claims that the payment could have broken campaign finance rules. but it has led to new questions, particularly as rudy giuliani said it was repaid, disguised as legal fees. it is clear that donald trump is continuing to struggle with that stormy issue, a president still looking for some protection from those allegations of the past. chris chris buckler, bbc news, washington. a woman accused of throwing acid over her former partner has been describing the night of the alleged attack in court. berlinah wallace is accused of scarring mark van dongen so badly that he ended his life at a belgian clinic last year. she denies all the charges. let's get the latest now from jon kay who is in bristol. what has been happening? we have heard over the last couple of days that they had a tempestuous relationship. they had broken up a couple of times, there had been some

angry text messages backwards and forwards, there were sometimes violence between them on both sides. and the might of this alleged attack in september 2015, berlinah wallace said they have an argument and she went to throw a glass of water over him as he lay on the bed in a pair of boxer shorts. she said that water had been poured out for her by him so had been poured out for her by him so he said she could take her medication. she said she was so, so shocked when he said it is burning me, it is acid. she said she then thought she saw some smoke rising from the area on the bed. she said she tried to put him under a shower, she tried to put him under a shower, she tried to look after him, but she said she couldn't believe it, she had no idea that it was acid in the glass. she is now being cross—examined by the prosecution who asked why did she call an ambulance that they question what

she said, it didn't cross by mind, i was in shock, i was finding it hard to deal with things. she said the blood drained from her and she could hardly walk. they also asked why she bought the acid a couple of weeks earlier on the internet. they asked specifically why she looked online for sulphuric acid, why that was the side she had done on an online website, why hadn't she looked for drain cleaner if it was drain cleaner she said she was after? she said, i don't know, i can't really remember. she said she would often delete things in her browsing history to protect her card details, her banking details. she will continue to be cross—examined tomorrow morning here at bristol crown court. the case continues and she denies both throwing a corrosive fluid and also denies murder. thank you very much, john kay in bristol. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: 5,000 calls to a breast cancer helpline since yesterday, after it emerged nearly half a million women missed their final routine screening. battling a stormy issue —

fresh questions about what president trump knew about a payment to a porn star. more than 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. in sport, arsene wenger says he wa nts to in sport, arsene wenger says he wants to finish as arsenal love story well by reaching the europa league final. they are in spain today, atletico madrid in the second leg of their semifinal and it is 1—1 after the first leg. let's return to the news about donald trump. 0ur correspondent, gary 0'donoghue is in washington (0s) further developments about money said to be paid to a woman called stormy daniels? bewildering now, this story about stormy daniels, who

paid the money, when did they pay it, how was it paid? was it repaid? we know $130,000 was paid to stephanie clifford, an adult film star, just before the general election. it was paid by michael cohen, donald trump's lawyer. he said he never got that money back, wasn't repaid it. now we learn donald trump has paid that money back to mr cohen via $35,000 monthly payments. but the president denied all along that he paid any money to mr cohen. so it is very, very complicated but the upshot is the president is trying to make sure he cannot be accused of accepting an illegal campaign contributions before the general election, because complaints have been made to the federal elections committee about that. he's also trying to make sure that. he's also trying to make sure that his lawyer, his former lawyer

michael cohen perhaps doesn't have anything else that he could tell the investigating authorities who are looking into him and certain criminal charges relating to his business dealings. mr trump's new lawyer, rudy giuliani, release this information last night about the repayment of that money. the press secretary was pressed on that by reporters this morning as she went to work. rudy giuliani has spoken at length about this petros night and this morning. there is ongoing litigation, i won't be able to comment. —— both last night and this morning. he hasn't spoken at length about this. sarah, many... would you say there was a disconnect between what the president said and the way the mayor described how that payment was made? i think it is fair to say there is ongoing litigation, that

there is ongoing litigation, that the president's attorneys who have the president's attorneys who have the greatest amount of visibility into this have spoken about this at length last night and this morning. the president has put out multiple tweets about this this morning. you can see there, sarah sanders doing her best to reflect those myriad of questions from those reporters coming out this morning. she has to face the press corps again in a couple of hours' time, where those questions will be repeated. and at the centre of this is was the president straightforward with the american public about whether he knew this money had been paid? that is really the central question. the campaign finances is one thing but the question is, did the president mislead the public about this payment? gary, thank you. police investigating the disappearance of a young british girl in germany 36 years ago are examining a riverbank in the town of paderborn. katrice lee — who was two — went missing in 1981 during a trip

with her mother to the supermarket. 0ur correspondentjenny hill has sent this report from paderborn. 0n the banks of the german river, a slow, painful search begins. 0n the banks of the german river, a slow, painfulsearch begins. under the mud, clues, perhaps, to a case which has baffled detectives for decades. patrice lee disappeared during a supermarket trip with her brother, it was her second birthday. the family lived on a nearby army base. despite a huge search, she was never found. i'm100% certain base. despite a huge search, she was never found. i'm 10096 certain that katrice never found. i'm10096 certain that katrice lee was sold for profit to a childless couple ta ken katrice lee was sold for profit to a childless couple taken by a childless couple taken by a childless couple taken by a childless couple and yes, she is possibly speaking another language and equally so i could be a grandparent and and equally so i could be a grandparentandi and equally so i could be a grandparent and i am sat here and don't know it. over the years, artists impressions of a girl growing up. detectives think it it

is possible katrice is alive but unaware of her background. this is what they think she would look like today. the police admit they made m ista kes today. the police admit they made mistakes during their original investigation. they have now rea nalysed investigation. they have now reanalysed old investigation. they have now rea nalysed old evidence investigation. they have now reanalysed old evidence and it is that, they say, that has led them right here to this spot. and to a search which opens old wounds but aims finally to expose the truth. it's feared over 100 people have died in powerful dust—storms sweeping across parts of northern india. most of the dead were in uttar pradesh. a senior official told the bbc they were the most intense storms in decades. many of the dead were asleep at home when their homes collapsed after being struck by lightning and high winds. justin rowlatt reports from dehli. the storm swept across north india, bringing devastation. winds of over 80 miles an hour, uprooting electricity pylons, cables sparking this ferocious fire.

storms are common in india at this time of year but this one was much bigger than had been forecast. first, the wind whipped up great clouds of choking dust, it was a struggle just to walk down the street. trees were uprooted, buildings brought down. then came the rain, torrential rain. as always, it was the poorest who suffered the most. many were killed when their feeble mud and brick homes collapsed, crushing those inside. there were widespread power cuts. storm debris closed roads and railways, making it hard for rescue teams to get to those in need. hospitals were busy caring for the more than 1a0 people who were injured as the tempest left

wreckage in its wake. it will be days before power and other services are fully restored, said officials. meanwhile, the forecasters have warned that the turbulent weather is not over. more powerful storms are on their way. justin rowlatt, bbc news, delhi. it's the largest victorian glasshouse in the world — making the temperate house at kew gardens a very special place for horticulturalists. the doors have been closed for the past five years for restoration, but reopen this weekend. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill is at kew gardens for us. it looks glorious. doesn't itjust? looking resplendent today. inaudible doesn't it just. .. inaudible keep going, victoria. surrounded by

a huge scaffold. sorry about that! we are having planes going to bed because we are under the heathrow flight because we are under the heathrow flight path. it does seem to be interfering with our signal. hopefully you can feed the resplendent some beauty of this place. it was wrapped in a huge tent and it's doors were locked for five yea rs and it's doors were locked for five years while this whole collection was reinvigorated the building taken apartand was reinvigorated the building taken apart and put back together. i've been finding out how much of a challenge that £a1 million restoration has been for the staff here at kew gardens. five years, 15,000 panes of glass, and more than 5000 litres of paint. the restoration of the world's largest victorian glasshouse has been a labour of love. but when i had a sneak previewjust two and a half weeks ago this was still very much a building site. thanks to the inclement weather, this project has been set back weeks. it is now a real race against time, but in just over a fortnight the temperate house will open to the public. it's already home to half of the 10,000 plants that

will be housed here. the garden inside this vast greenhouse is a snapshot of the life that grows in temperate climates all around the world and for many of these plants, this is their only refuge. we've got a real importantjob to keep these things going. some plants that are may be down to a few individuals in the wild — a wild fire, an earthquake, and they are gone. so we really need the people to understand the importance of these things. among the greenery are species that harbour natural medicines, now used to treat potentially lethal diseases, including malaria. i nickname it the reclining buddha. in his first visit here, sir david attenborough highlighted the importance of kew‘s scientific work, learning how to protect plants from which we still have so much to learn. it's here that people can study these consequences of not only diseases but invasive plants, plants that can come in and be more vigorous than some of our native

plants and drive them to extinction. so that kind of ecological botanical knowledge is of extreme importance and this is one of the great centres for it. for the first time since it was opened in 1863, the house was stripped back to bare metal. every part of its structure has been examined in detail. this was a painstaking refurbishment of a national treasure. the temperate house is the largest surviving victorian glasshouse in the world. so for kew, this was a hugely important project, both to bring these plants back to their home but also to restore this building back to its beauty and its absolute architectural brilliance. open to the public once again, this great building is fulfilling its original victorian purpose — providing a home for some of the world's most precious plants. victoria gill, bbc news, kew gardens. and they are standing right next to

one of those extremely precious plants. we are standing in the africa section of this great house, this is known as the loneliest plant in the world. a male plants without any mate. it is more than a century old. there will be more than 600 people standing here later today to see the ribbon cut and the reopening of this building for five years. i'm sure they will be queueing round the block. thank you. time for a look at the weather. here's chris. an extraordinary picture, you better explain. these are massive hailstones that fell yesterday in the us. in the northern states of iowa. these were reportedly golfball size but they look a little bigger. this one looks like it has a bit of the road embedded in it. it has fallen so hard. these hailstones formed by bouncing up and down in a thundercloud cloud on the number of times they go up and down, if you chopped into it you with the different layers of ice building up. so the different layers of ice building up. furthermore they go up

those layers can build up. kind of like an onion, and if that hit you on the head it would also bring you test your eyes! it would, if it didn't knock you out. when the storm hits, you can see... quite different sizes. some of the ha ilstones quite different sizes. some of the hailstones are little smaller but others getting on towards baseball size. they were pretty big. you wouldn't want to be out in that, for sure. and they do a lot of damage stock are indeed would. a chance of more storms across the midwest through parts of iowa in two parts of kansas and missouri in the next red brows. a similar kind of thing. maybe more of this pale but also some tornadoes as maybe more of this pale but also some tornadoes as well. a lot more settled hopefully here. yes. we have been speaking for the last few days about the bank holiday weekend warming up and that is still on for being old pretty decent weekend. blue sky and some high cloud in hertfordshire there. that

is tied in with the forward edge of this cloud working in on the satellite picture at the moment. we have seen an satellite picture at the moment. we have seen an area satellite picture at the moment. we have seen an area of rain in northern ireland, turning more showery as it pushes into western scotla nd showery as it pushes into western scotland and north west england at north west wales. nevertheless, things have been clouding over. in cumbria, some spots of light rain and drizzle falling. tonight we will see a little more about damp weather in these western areas of scotland, england and wales. through the night, this weather is slightly going to tend to cloud over. clearer skies in east anglia and south—east england. 7—9d the most. a milder kind of night. the exception probably east anglia and south—east england, whose temperature could dip a little further and clearer skies. friday, breakfast south—westerly winds. it is here where we will see the biggest cloud, outbreaks of rain coming into the north west of scotland. quite a bit of cloud elsewhere. i think we will see some

big gaps opening in the cloud at times, so some bright sunny spells. the cloud tending to come and go through the day. temperatures up to 90 degrees in london, not bad at, we can do better than that. as we had through the weekend and into bank holiday monday itself, the weather will be and it is going to become increasingly warm. the reason for that change of fortunes is we have this area of high pressure around the continent. that will be increasingly dragging in some warm airfrom germany, increasingly dragging in some warm air from germany, northern increasingly dragging in some warm airfrom germany, northern france and pushing it across to england and wales. that will tend to boost the temperatures particular to and wales as we go through holiday weekend. even further north, a rise in temperatures. saturday, a fair bit of cloud in south—western areas. chance of rain in northwest got otherwise largely dry. in the sunshine, highs of 23 degrees in london. warmer than it normally is that this time of year. into the second half of the weekend, increasingly we get those wins coming in from the continent. increasing amounts of sunshine,

although still some rain in the north—west of scotland where it will stay quite breezy. the temperatures will continue to rise. highs hitting 25 celsius in london and birmingham and even further north we will see those temperatures rising generally into the high teens. fine weather to look forward to for most of us as we had through the bank holiday weekend ahead. that is the waiters. —— the latest. this is bbc news, our latest headlines. urgent calls to a breast cancer helpline, after it emerged nearly half a million women missed their final routine screening due to an nhs computer error in england. battling a stormy issue, fresh questions over what president trump knew about a payment of $130,000 as hush money to silence porn star stormy daniels over claims ofan affair. 0ver100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. many of the dead were sleeping when their houses collapsed after being struck by intense bursts of lightning. cambridge analytica shuts down,

but the probe into its role in facebook‘s data scandal continues. investigators vow the probe will still "pursue individuals and directors". the defence secretary says that afghans who served as interpreters alongside the british army, should be allowed to stay in britain — and their immigration fees waived. sport now on afternoon live with ben mundy and ben, all eyes will be on arsenal, who are looking to reach the europa league final this evening. arsenal manager arsene wenger is looking for the perfect fairy tale ending to his arsenal career. his side are in spain for the second leg of their semifinal against atletico madrid. it's finely poised this one at 1—1. arsenal will feel they should have done more at home last week. but wenger, and his team know, progress to the final will give him the chance to win silverware in his final match in charge. i would like to walk out of arsenal one day and know that i focused only one day and know that i focused only on arsenal. i want to finish with

this love story well. well, for arsene wenger to achieve that he'll have to secure the one thing missing from his impressive trophy haul at arsenal. he's only reached one european, the 2006 champions league final which they lost to barcelona. so, can arsenal get into another one tonight? 0ur sports scorrespondentjoe wilson caught up with chris sutton, a finalist in this competition with celtic back in 2003, to see what he thinks ahead of kick off. for arsenal tonight this is maybe arsene wenger‘s last stand. they have to somehow get a result. i think arsenal will score. have to somehow get a result. i think arsenalwill score. i'mjust not quite sure about whether they will keep a clean sheet. it's funny, isn't it because this week in european football is almost looked like teams have forgotten how to defend but he with atletico madrid they know how to defend. they are supremely organised, they've got a ferocious manager. it's all about blood, guts and glory. in contrast

to arsenal. arsenal have to match atletico madrid. that's the key for arsenal tonight. they've got creative players who can score a goal but it's about how they defend. arsene wenger has said he wanted to win this story well with arsenal. even when he's gone in terms of the longer term future of arsenal, this competition has real significance. it does. it has significance in terms of arsenal. they view themselves as a champions league club. it's one step at a time. i think for arsene wenger its short—term is. it's about thinking let's win the europa league, let's put that to bed. champions league next season. but i want to lend my legacy at arsenal on a high —— to end my legacy. justin langer has been appointed australia's new head coach. as expected, the former opening batsman takes over from darren lehmann in the wake of the ball—tampering scandal. top of his to—do list... a tour of england next month,

as well as earning the respect and trust of the cricketing world. 0ne one thing that's really important is we keep looking to earn respect. to me, respect is worth more than all the gold in the world. earn respect on and off the cricket field. another really important foundation over the last six years in western australian cricket is we look to encourage great cricketers but also great people. if we can encourage greater australians over the next four years starting from day one, i think that's really important foundation for us. staying with cricket... and india captain virat kohli's agreed a deal to play for surrey for the month ofjune. kohli, who's ranked number two in the test rankings, will feature in three county championship matches and at least three 0ne—day cup games. as a result, he'll miss india's test match with afghanistan. and john higgins and kyren wilson are in action in the first of the world snooker championship semi—finals. these are live pictures from the crucible. higgins led 3—1 after the first session. he is now leading a—3. kyren wilson

in his first semifinal pulling a few frames back. higgins going for a fifth world title. barry hawkins and mark williams begin their semifinal around 7pm tonight. they best of 33 frames. that's all the sport for now. you can keep up to date with the men's race in the tour de yorkshire, taking place now on the bbc sport website. now on afternoon live, let's go nationwide, and see what's happening around the country, in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. in doncaster, amy garcia is here live from the stage one finish line of the tour de yorkshire, a four day cycling stage race across yorkshire, which starts today. and in tunbridge wells, natalie graham is here with news

of a fundraising effort for saltdean lido near brighton, where volunteers are hoping to raise £60,000 in four weeks to help restore the 1930s building and gain further lottery funding. first to amy. tell us what it's all about? good afternoon. the sun has been shining today and thankfully the crowds have been out as well. this is stage one of the tour de yorkshire. it's a four—day race and is in its fourth year. it was borne out of the success of the tour de france that came through in 201a. this is the finish stage. you can see the finishing line. the men set off from beverley at 2pm. they'll be due at 6pm. you will not be able to see the pavement because it will be heaving with people. the women have

already been through. that was one by kirsten vild from the netherlands. it's the first time she's one on this patch of concrete. it's not for me but it's for the team. we have girls who are really suited to the kleins tomorrow. i think i can get something back and i hope i can defend other team and go home with the jersey. hope i can defend other team and go home with the jerseylj hope i can defend other team and go home with the jersey. i hope you can hear me above the accordion music! why is this so important to yorkshire? we have some very unique folk in yorkshire. we really like to get behind this because last year is estimated to have brought £6a million into the local economy, 2.2 million into the local economy, 2.2 million people lined the route. millions more watched the race on tv

worldwide. this is the perfect opportunity to showcase our wonderful landscape, our fabulous people and communities really get behind this either with bunting, with decorating bikes, with one—man bands. it's a wonderful atmosphere. the race is on until sunday. if you've never experienced it, come up and see what yorkshire has to offer. it has a great deal! thank you very much. and to natalie. this lied —— this lido at saltdean reopened last year. yes, it opened in 2010 when the pool was a risk of being filled in and turned into blocks of flats instead. a group of

residents got together and they reopened it last year. it was hugely popular. 37,000 people visited the pool last summer. now they need to reopen the beautiful art deco buildings next to it. the pool on its own doesn't make enough money, whatever the weather. the building was built in the 1930s. the reinforced concrete is crumbling, the wooden windows are coming down and actually it's notjust about raising money, if they don't get it repaired quite urgently then one of the gems of the english seaside is at risk of collapse. that would be a terrible loss. they've only got four weeks to reach the target. yes. they've got planning permission and over £a million of lottery funding all ready to go. what they need now is to raise £10a,000 from local businesses, the community and anyone who like to contribute. they've

already got £a5,000 but they've only got four weeks to raise the rest. they say they've come this far and it's a race against time now. fingers crossed they reach that. it's a race against time now. fingers crossed they reach thatm would be such a shame if we fall for what is the sake of £60,000, that's all we need to raise to show the national lottery that people love and treasure this pool and are willing to dip into their pockets to support it. if they don't get the money the danger is that lottery funding could be allocated to other projects. go to their crowdfunding site, is the message, wherever you live in the country. thank you. you'd like to see more on any of those stories you can find them on

the bbc i play. we go nationwide every weekday afternoon at a:30pm here an afternoon live. a report on alleged "institutional abuse" at a mental health ward in denbighshire has found no evidence to support the claims. an inquiry in 2015 was told by relatives that conditions on the tawel van ward near rhyl were like a "zoo". but a new investigation has concluded that the evidence it relied on was incomplete. tomos morgan reports. she was vibrant, kind and considerate. for six weeks joyce elizabeth was cared for in north wales at a mental health ward with elderly dementia patients. from the outset her children christine and philip had concerns about their mother's care. her bed was by the door and there were lots of beds piled up on

top of each other, and a curtain ripped down that was supposed to be hiding, so it was like a store room. she deteriorated quicker than expected, and joyce's family were called in one evening as they were told the mother was about to die. and their experience of what happened that evening still shocks them now, almost six years on. it was chaos. there were people outside with underpants on their head running around naked. they sat outside our door, banging the door. trying to get in. and of course we were talking about it, how bad it was, not realising at the time that my mum could probably hear all this. she was probably worried about us on her deathbed. after serious concerns were raised a year later, the board closed and the first report launched immediately. it detailed some of the most serious claims of mistreatment ever made within the nhs in wales. today's report by independent health consultants the health and care advisory service is the most comprehensive investigation into the tawel fan ward. it found no evidence of institutional abuse and said the previous evidence in previous reviews was misinterpreted and taken out of context. it goes on to say that

overall there was a good standard of care. it does say there were problems across some services and the government at the health board prevented a robust approach to patient safety. i accept that people will find this report a challenge to read, but this whole process has been very, very difficult. but i do hope that when they have got the chance to read it in depth they will find, as i believe it to be, that this was a really well evidenced—based, substantial piece of investigation. the trust and betsi cadwaladr health board has been damaged in the eyes of some families, like philip and christine. with others feeling that this review has been a whitewash. the defence secretary, gavin williamson, says he's made clear to the home office that afghan interpreters for british forces who moved to the uk should be allowed to stay. he described them as brave individuals who had every right to be in the country. it comes after more than 150 interpreters wrote a letter to mr williamson demanding a change to the immigration rules.

in a moment the business news with rachel horne. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. 5,000 calls to a breast cancer helpline since yesterday, after it emerged nearly half a million women missed their final routine screening. battling a stormy issue — fresh questions about what president trump knew about a payment to a porn star. more than 100 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms in northern india. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. nearly 800 jobs are at risk as virgin media closes its call centre in swansea. the telecommunications firm plans to reduce its number of uk bases from eight to four, centralising operations in manchester, more on that in a moment. a criminal investigation has been launched into vauxhall zafira fires,

according to the driver and vehicle standards agency. a transport committee report last year said the car—maker was too slow to begin a full investigation into fires affecting zafira b models. the dvsa has teamed up with luton borough council's trading standards officers to investigate vauxhall. vauxhall is understood to be complying with the investigation. talktalk has come last for the second year running in a broadband service report released by regulator 0fcom. the compa ny‘s customers were the least likely to recommend their provider to friends. it scored poorly for reliability and complaints handling. talktalk say they are rolling out major service improvements. less than a week ago the headlines were full of the proposed sainsbury—asda merger, so why are morrisons and tesco shares up today? shares in tesco and morrisons are

rising. yesterday it was all about the proposed merger. it is not a done deal. if it did happen it would make sainsbury‘s and asked the biggest in the market pushing tesco down to second place and morrisons would come up to third place. still quite far behind those two big as the sainsbury‘s and tesco is. the cma will investigate the competition and markets authority. today we saw some letters that mps had written to the cma. 0ne some letters that mps had written to the cma. one is rachel reeves, chair of the business, energy and industrial strategy committee saying this merger threatens customer choice, hands more power to mighty supermarket players and puts more pressure on small and medium suppliers. the chair of the environment, food and rural affairs committee said the grocery code adjudicators 2017 survey said that asda was the worst grocery retailer

in the eyes of its suppliers. very strong words from the cma, giving hope to tesco and morrisons. tesla are spending a lot of money, no sign of any profit yet. they had their worst quarterly loss from january down to march. bloomberg estimate they are burning through £5,000 a minute. why behind production schedule. shares felljust over 7% in new york so far this morning. we'll get more in a minute but back in the uk i want to mention pmi figures. it was the turn of services to date. any figure above 50 is seen as growth and the figure came in at 52.8 for april. but it was slower than expected. here to tell us why that matters is jasper lawler. why do thes figures matter?

i would argue on a one—off basis, you probably shouldn't put a lot of stock in this data. it is based on surveys and at an individual level may be of the purchasing manager involved, his team boss the football the night before he might be feeling slightly less confident on his business. back candace —— there can still be a lot of variation. the point is it's an accumulation of evidence that the uk economy seems to have slowed recently. we had some gdp figures for the first quarter, there was barely any growth in the economy in the first quarter. that's looking in the rear—view mirror. what's good about these surveys is they are quite forward—looking about what these purchasing managers plan for the future. it looks like activity is slowing. looking at what that means for interest rates, i

think putting all the evidence together we have a bank of england rate decision next week. i would suggest there isn't going to be a rate rise next week and we're at autumn isa rate rise next week and we're at autumn is a time when the next rate rise would happen. let's talk about the supermarket share prices. at the weekend the chat was about sainsbury‘s and ulster. —— sainsbury‘s and ulster. —— sainsbury‘s and ulster. —— sainsbury‘s and asda. what's moving now? the same reason shareholders at sainsbury's love this deal is the same reason those at tesco and morrisons don't, and seemingly this group of mps also don't love it. it's because the whole premise of why this will be good for the two companies is that they will be able to squeeze suppliers. there are some very big suppliers out there, there are many small businesses to supply the supermarkets and mps want to make sure that these small suppliers are not put out of shape by this deal. what that means for the share price of these other companies, i

think the way you can conclude is that anything that is more likely to keep tesco in the number one spot is going to be good for its share price and good for the morrisons share price as well. and tesla, after 15 years, elon musk says they will make a profit in the second half of this year — can he do it? he certainly can do it. he's done some marvellous things but actually he has missed a few targets recently, particularly production targets of these tesla cards. though the good chance of it missing. the backdrop when it comes to tesla is the company haemorrhages losses. it loses billions of dollars. investors obviously are still investing but they need faith. a lot of that faith comes from the belief in its founder and where he's taking the company, which is what made today all the more interesting to see the shares

fall. after an earnings call last night he referred to some of the queries from analysts as "boneheaded questions". not the way to engage the investors propping up your company while you're making losses. us stocks low, investors worried about the outcome of us—china trade talks, also lots if disappointing earnings investors have said they will share those —— sell those shares which has caused the prices to fall. international airline group are reportedly considering a group for norwegian air. they've done some expansion on their low—cost airline. they say they are expected to make a

profit. and tomorrow is unofficial star wars day, may the ath be with you. thank you very much! two teenagers have gone on trial accused of plotting to kill pupils and teachers at a school in north yorkshire. the prosecution claim the boys were obsessed with the columbine high school massacre in america. the teenagers deny the charges. 0ur correspondent, dan johnson is following the trial at leeds crown court. what's been happening? todayis today is the initial opening summary from the prosecution about what this case is around. thejury from the prosecution about what this case is around. the jury has just heard an overview from the prosecutor of exactly what they believe the case is against these two boys. two things that stand out. the age of the defendants, both just 14 the age of the defendants, both just 1a when the attack was said to have been planned, and the nature of the violence they were alleged to have

been plotting to unleash. the jury heard that they had both hero worshipped the killers behind the columbine high school massacre which took place in the united states in 1999, years before these two boys we re eve n 1999, years before these two boys were even born. they had read about those killers online and researched the same sort of weapons and the methods they had used. the prosecution's case if they were planning to carry out a similar attack at their school in north yorkshire. thejury also heard one of the diaries written by one of these boys gave an insight into his state of mind. he had written " everyone state of mind. he had written "everyone is filthy and deserves to be shot including me. i'll play the role of god and decide who i let live and die. humans are a vile species which needs to die out. the human condition is a curse and a burden". there was another entry which read "my being is a miserable

existence full of torment and macabre themes. death is truly the only freedom i am constantly at war with myself, a cold—blooded twisted war, i hate myself and want to die". pa rt war, i hate myself and want to die". part of the case is also that that boy had wounded his girlfriend by scratching his name into her back. he had wounded her by carving his name into her lower back. that is pa rt name into her lower back. that is part of this case, and that he was planning to harm her parents so that he could use the shot guns her father owned as part of this attack. this is a complex case with a lot of evidence to be heard. the boys say this was fantasy that would never have actually been carried out. thank you. polling stations are open today across england for voting in local elections. it's the biggest test of public opinion since the general election 11 months ago. most councils will be counting votes overnight, but others will declare results during the day on friday. 0ur political correspondent eleanor garnier reports. preparations started early at polling stations up and down england.

in central london, theresa may and her husband placed their votes before nine o'clock. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn marked his ballot paper at a polling station in a primary school in north london. and also casting his vote at a school, this time in lambeth in south london, the co—leader of the green party, jonathan bartley. the liberal democrat leader vince cable voted with his wife in twickenham. there are a371 council seats up for grabs. in 150 unitary authorities, metropolitan boroughs and district councils. six mayoral elections are also being held. all council seats are being fought for in london and some cities, including birmingham, manchester, leeds and newcastle. there's also a by—election in the parliamentary seat of west in northern ireland. here in swindon in wiltshire, people will lead to bring id to be able to vote.

it's part of a pilot scheme also happening in bromley, gosport, watford and woking. polling stations opened at 7am this morning and they'll stay open until 10pm tonight. these polls are the first england wide test of electoral opinion since the general election last year. most of the results will come in overnight but some areas won't start counting until tomorrow, so the final results won't be known until later on friday. eleanor garnier, bbc news, westminster. and you can watch full coverage of the local election results on bbc one and the bbc news channel from 11:a5 tonight. that's it from your afternoon live team for today, next the bbc news at five with jane. time for a look at the weather. for most of us the weather is looking fine in the run—up to the bank holiday weekend. much of

england having some sunny skies. this was the scene earlier in the day. further north and west we've seen a day. further north and west we've seen a bit more cloud. back row through the evening and overnight will tend to filter into many areas although probably clear skies for most of the night across east anglia and south—east england. it will be milder. not as chilly to start off with on friday morning. friday should be another largely dry day. a view passing showers across western scotla nd view passing showers across western scotland but otherwise the cloud will be in and break as the day goes by with some spills of sunshine. in the sunshine temperatures reaching 18. however, things are set to get even warmer than that as we head into the bank holiday weekend. the weather warming up with temperatures in the south—east for some reaching the tonight at five, thousands of calls to a breast cancer helpline in 2a hours. public health england offered the advice service, after it emerged that hundreds of women may have died of the disease because they were not invited for a final routine check. since we opened this morning

at breast cancer care we had a0 calls in the first 15 minutes and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. people are calling about are they affected, because people aren't quite clear whether they are affected or not. we'll be talking to a daughter whose mum died of breast cancer without being screened. the other main stories on bbc news at 5. a member of president trump's legal team says mr trump personally reimbursed the payment used to buy stormy daniels' silence, despite his earlier claim he never knew about it.